That may sound like a flood of buzzwords but he's not wrong at all, except maybe for "alarming rate".

This tech is "revolutionary" in that nothing like it has ever performed anywhere near the current level. MNIST is effectively a solved, toy problem now, and many image classification problems are as well.

Democratized in the sense that you can for the first time write and test these state of the art algorithms on your personal machine and, while a couple years ago you needed something beefy like a 1080 TI, even that requirements has been relaxed with many optimized architectures.

More importantly, all of this has literally exploded in the last 5-10 years, no doubt due in part because of the open access nature of arxiv and open source.

That's totally fine though, while comparisons to blockchain are a little insulting, all of this cynicism means less competition for me!