I am not excited. I am terrified. Right at the beginning of the current wave (2010-2012) of ML approaches I did some work on ML systems and NLP, and back then

I am not excited. I am terrified. Right at the beginning of the current wave (2010-2012) of ML approaches I did some work on ML systems and NLP, and back then I clearly saw how nothing truly outstanding is happening, we were only starting to figure our what GPUs were capable of. So all of this was fun: NLP, ML, vintage AI. But nothing felt like it did was groundbreaking, or would solve fundamental true GAI problems, or was even close. Yet, 10 years later, here we are. Language is solved. In most areas I know /something/ about (programming, ML, NLP, compilers) this is huge and makes mountains of knowledge obsolete.