We're in a lull just now. I believe the New Hot Thing will arise from technologies such as Apple's Neural Engine.
All this hoopla over LLMs - their limitations are coming into focus - they're very good for what they do. But there's a new neural network model, the Attention model: I started looking at this and my jaw dropped.
@tuban_muzuru @thomasfuchs The attention mechanism *is* what LLMs are built on. That paper you cited is what started LLM research.