Difficult to quantify but as an example the 2017 scientific paper “Attention is all you need” changed the entire AI field dramatically. Without these landmark achievements delivered by highly skilled scientists, OpenAI wouldn’t exist or only be severely limited.
And ironically even the authors did not fully grasp at the time the paper importance. Reminds me of when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, tried to sell Google for $1 million ...
