I clearly think so.
Another way to think about it is that 15 years ago no one predicted where the capabilities of artificial intelligence would be now. This is the big thing that has happened. This is a big reason experts are warning about the extinction risks. Very few people, almost no one in AI, expected that we would have models as powerful as the GPT suite of models from several companies.
Put simply, when I was a teenager, no one expected that we'd have models that could talk to people. This was inconceivable. Things are accelerating faster and faster.