[WithinReason]

Isn't that what the Singularity was described as a few decades ago? Progress so fast it's unpredictable even in the short term.

[rileyphone]

Same as it ever was, scientific revolutions arrive all at once, punctuating otherwise uneventful periods. As I understand, the present one is the product of the paper "Attention is all you need": https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf.

[visarga]

... that one has 52K citations, and the 2D to 3D paper "NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis" with 1488 citations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08934