For decades ML researchers were walking on eggshells, thinking that they are going to run into overfitting and bias/variance tradeoffs, adding regularisation, w

For decades ML researchers were walking on eggshells, thinking that they are going to run into overfitting and bias/variance tradeoffs, adding regularisation, worrying about local maxima, etc. Then one day a certain company kept making their models bigger without any concern and suddenly everyone thinks that there are unlimited returns to scale, when in reality you merely bought yourself a one time victory.