What if we actually generate some form of intelligence, but can't figure out how to motivate it to solve our problems? I mean, we already have intelligent life,

What if we actually generate some form of intelligence, but can't figure out how to motivate it to solve our problems? I mean, we already have intelligent life, but a very small percentage of intelligent biomass can solve important problems, or wants to. Like, great, we created a real-life intelligent tamagotchi, but literally all it wants to do is play go.