The speaker argues that gaming-related advances helped make the broader economy and technology sufficiently advanced for Geoffrey Hinton's deep-learning ideas to work, despite gaming being unrelated to the field.

“right i mean machine learning itself is a place where this happened right where people had these ideas about how to do deep learning or something but it just took a totally unrelated to industry um of gaming to make the relevant progress to get the whole you know the basically the economy as a whole advanced enough that like deep learning like jeffrey hinton's ideas could work so”