[D] In 2010, did people expect things like DALLE and AlphaFold to be only 10/13 years away?

AI stuff didn't really hit 'mainstream' until relatively recently so I was really surprised by the new prompt to image technology.

Was the field expecting this technology by now or did people think it was a long ways away (20+ years)?

I know the field moves really fast these days, so I'm curious about what the research community's expectations were in the past.

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