Is AI Getting Boring? And Some Thoughts on the Future of AI.

Summary: Things are getting repetitious and that can be boring. Still, looking at lessons from the 90s it's clear there are at least one or two decades of important economic advances that will based on our current AI/ML. Then some thoughts on where that next really huge breakthrough will come from that will return our initial excitement. Is it just me or do we seem to be doing the same things over and over again? If you've only been in the data science profession for say four or five years then everything no doubt still seems new and exciting.