Yes. And (with scary privacy implications) maybe the next frontier is capturing all spoken language uttered by people in real-time and streaming it into a mode

Yes. And (with scary privacy implications) maybe the next frontier is capturing all spoken language uttered by people in real-time and streaming it into a model that is being updated in near-real-time. And finally brain implants extracting unspoken thoughts and neural activity and combining it all. Extend it to non human life forms as well. (universal consciousness?)