[JoeDaDude]

A scant 11 years ago, I was about to obtain an MSCS degree and was chatting with my follow students about what they wanted to do. There was talk about designing compilers or webapps or games or databases. I mentioned I thought AI was pretty cool and the universal answer was I should not waste time on that.

[kqr]

Wow, at that point we were at most a year from the first signs of the AI revolution that came with deep learning, and three years from DL exceeding human performance at multiple specialised tasks. You were not far off!