>What they said 10 years ago was correct. It did hit society like a sledge hammer. Machine learning basically took over the AI space and penetrated the consumer space with applications that were all but impossible in the previous decade. There's AI chips in smart phones now.

And still almost all of these applications are not really impactful or that important compared to actually society and life changing developments like the steam engine, electricity, electromagnetic transmission, cars, computers themselves and the internet.

Just more of the same, with added spice.

In the sense that we could revert to 10 years ago, and nothing would be much different or missed. Whereas going back without electricity or cars would be a totally different thing!

I think LLMs can be far more impactful than anything else hyped in machine learning of the past 10 years...