One of the key things that started the AI revolution was realizing that GPUs were really useful for Machine Learning, which happened a 2 years before the XKCD,

One of the key things that started the AI revolution was realizing that GPUs were really useful for Machine Learning, which happened a 2 years before the XKCD, gradually starting around 2010, but really getting popular in 2012 (12 years ago today) with "AlexNet" using multiple GPUs: "ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks". https://www.turingpost.com/p/cvhistory6 https://www.turingpost.com/p/cvhistory6