With the advent of LLMs, multimodality and “general purpose” AIs which seat on unimaginable amounts money, computing power and data. I’m graduating and want to start a PHD, but feel quite disheartened given the huge results obtained simply by “brute-forcing” and by the ever-growing hype in machine learning that could result in a bubble of data scientists, ML researchers and so on.
All technology will have a natural language interface within 10 years. We will have embodied reasoning machines at most a decade later. Your perspective is skewed by your business context perhaps
Divide those timescales by 4 and you are on the mark.