[csl]

How can the results be old when the paper is from 2017?

[aqsalose]

They are comparing their genetic programming results with a deep learning paper published in 2015. [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature1...

[phoe-krk]

What a time to live in, when papers from 2015 are "really old" in 2017.

[baq]

1 deep learning year is about 49 dog years.

[amelius]

It highly depends on the field you're in though.

[posterboy]

What is "exponential growth"!

[sk0g]

It's more logarithmic, isn't it? Right now we're at the beginning stage, where there's massive discoveries and changes happening, but in say, 50 years time, there won't be much changing year-to-year.

[jcranberry]

Logarithmic or logistic?