His examples are CNN image applications, and it is true that these were spectacular new results 10 years ago. Since then, the tedious engineering has improved and recreating the results now are indeed just a few lines of python.

The reason they were so impressive then is because it seemed they were "more intelligent" than they actually are, and people extrapolated the same level of performance on any task. Achieving it seemed more impressive then, than now.

But "AI skills" should be broader than image classification.