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This sounds like what I was learning 20-some years ago. The hardware and software are better (and easier!) now and the compute is so, so much better. I priced out a terabyte data server with some colleagues back then using off the shelf hardware: $10k CDN. :)
Edit: point being we are seeing things now that were predicted almost a century ago but it takes time to build all the infrastructure. That pace is accelerating. The next ten years are going to be wild.
I'm only finishing the class now and it's pretty wild to hear "We're only learning this model to help you understand a fundamental concept, the model itself is ancient and obsolete", and said model came out in 2018. Wild