Computer vision is one of those areas that promised the world but failed to deliver on many of its promises. I am not saying it won’t be useful in a couple of decades for more complex scenarios than what we already have (e.g. given an image of a face recognize if it is the same face or find the rectangle in this image kind of tasks) but this whole “it will revolutionize everything in the next 5 years” nonsense is clearly wrong. Self-driving cars are one of the main fields that shows that computer vision still has severe limits.

And natural language processing is even more broken. Again, I am not saying it wouldn’t be useful if it worked, I am saying it doesn’t work nearly as well as people claim it does and it is not improving as quickly either.

I am not doubting the potential of the working technology, I am doubting that it works. Big difference compared to your historic example.