It already has. Language is just the most accessible by most people. But deep learning is not new and is not newly applied to problems. But it’s unclear how much of this article is hype or new.

Gigafactory was also supposed to be 100% automated in a much more difficult assembly than putting a few boards into a metal case and gluing a screen on. They failed in practice and balanced into something more practical. (I’d not even in this article they eventually nod that it’s not fully automated just the “important parts”)