Machine learning is the electricity of 21st century. In is an enabler. And it doesn’t have to be limited to the big car manufacturers or social sites.  
If you have a modern computer with I7 like CPU or an NVIDIA video card around,  you can rip the benefits of the real time computer vision today. Train a YOLO or Tensorflow system or let us do it for you and you can spot “bad apples” or “golden eggs” in your workflow.
Immediate applications include COVID prevention at workplace, posture and activity control, production line control, specific security etc. Whatever you can imagine. The technology is no longer the limit here.