[polkapolka]

Faster and more complex computers does not make you faster at manual programming. Computer vision had this before the DL boom: engineers painfully crafting feature extractors. It went nowhere.

Bayesian models underperform to DL by a wide margin (though it is a step up from handwritten rules: if DEAR FRIEND then Spam score++.

[giardini]

polkapolka says >"Faster and more complex computers does not make you faster at manual programming. Computer vision had this before the DL boom: engineers painfully crafting feature extractors. It went nowhere."

Faster and more complex computers make manual programming faster and make software faster, including DL software. Without the faster computers of today we wouldn't be using or even discussing DL.