I would modify the article to say "the next leap in AI is prediction". There is a lot of activity in this space called Predictive Coding.

Look up the work of David Cox[1], Karl Friston et al. A fascinating variant is Contrastive Predictive Coding[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0yVuoATjzs

[2] https://ankeshanand.com/blog/2020/01/26/contrative-self-supe...