Precisely. AI outside the beaten-to-death academic problems and datasets is a vast and completely un-plowed field with enormous potential. And unlike last time,

Precisely. AI outside the beaten-to-death academic problems and datasets is a vast and completely un-plowed field with enormous potential. And unlike last time, there are some sub-fields of this that do actually work this time (computer vision, signal processing, speech recognition/synthesis, some NLP tasks, etc) and beat older baselines, often by a mile. There is a lot of froth, but there's quite a bit of substance as well, and the field is moving faster than any other I have ever experienced.