r/MachineLearning - [D] Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an 'AI winter'?

The'big breakthrough' for vision was in 2012. We're still working on it, though it has spawned very useful technological solutions. BERT and similar models really hit the big time 1 1/2 years ago, and we've barely scratched the surface. Text is (IMHO) even bigger than images. So it's going to be 8 years before we've extracted all the goodness out of that.