Is the Pendulum Swung in the Right Direction?

i'm surprised that someone with an industrial engineering background would know about generative adversarial networks. It's a very contemporary new idea in computer science. In my posure to quantitative finance, i've always found it to be a very numerical, heavy, computation and stats driven approach. Not so much machine learning, although that's been transitioning. But i would say the pendulum would probably have swung based on increasing national power over all else.