Feels like even if this isn't 'it' then the next stage is coming down the pipe really fucking soon.

If we simply consider the amount of human resources that went into reaching the moon, or breaking the atom both 'time sensitive' pursuits; and then weight that against the amount of human resource that's going into AI?

Well the race is on and there's more research going uni this than ever went into either of those projects.

It's going to take less than a decade for a winner to emerge.