Comment by sandeepkd

There is technology, related technical advancements and then there is this business incentives to make money. A lot of progress has indeed been made in NLP, information retrieval which is helpful in its own ways to speed up thing, it can easily be seen as next level of automation.

Everything else around it is a glamorous party cause everyones money is riding on it and one needs to appreciate it or risk being deserted by the crowd.

The basics of science is around questioning things until you get convinced. People depending on models too much may end up in a situation where they would loose the ability to triangulate information from multiple sources before being convinced about it.

Programming can be more complicated above a certain threshold even for humans so it would be interesting how the models perform with the complexity. I am skeptic but again I dont know the future either.