> pause and ask yourself when you last encountered software were you said "how the hell did they do that?"

Like every month for the past 5 years? The progress in machine learning is dizzying. It is astonishing what can be done now with text, images, audio, video, code, etc...

If you don't study it, however, you have no idea how it works or how to do it yourself.

oblig. xkcd https://xkcd.com/1425/