I think the social component of AI is picking up steam. What I mean is the culture around AI - how to train, fine-tune, test and integrate AIs in applications, how to mix and match the AI modules, this used to be the domain of experts. Now everyone is assimilating this culture and we see an explosion of creativity.

The rapid rate of AI advancement is overlapping with the rapid rate of social adoption of AI and making it seem to advance even faster.

12h later edit: This paper comes out HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace . AI is orchestrating AI by itself. What can you say?