(1) For the AI neural network architecture, see
AI transformer.
(2) The idea that AI will transform the world unlike anything previously. There seems little doubt about it. Changes are already profound and will be even more so as time passes. Pundits are shouting long and loud that this is "the" greatest transformation on the planet. See
AI optimism,
AI in a nutshell and
AI glossary.
More Profound Than Anything Before It
In Mallaby's best-selling book, he says "Artificial intelligence heralds a transformation more profound than anything since Homo sapiens acquired the capacity for abstract thought, some seventy thousand years ago."