[modeless]

Yes. They are far beyond any other AI technique in speech recognition, speech synthesis, translation, OCR, object recognition, playing Go, and many other diverse tasks. And their performance continues to increase with added computing power with no limit that we've seen yet, so custom hardware improves results.

[streetcat1]

Alas, you do not usually train models from scratch. I think that transfer learning will dominate, and it does not need this power.