[_bxg1]

That's exactly what I'm arguing against: I think the "eating the world" part is a hype-cycle. I think DL has truly revolutionized a handful of very narrow cases - computer vision and speech recognition/synthesis, for example - but that people are vastly over-estimating how "paradigm-changing" it actually is.

[visarga]

Take just computer vision alone. It has applications in manufacturing, robotics, SDCs, medical scans, cartography, agriculture, and many others. It's like the motor - a universal tool.

[Jack000]

yes, but reliable facial recognition alone has huge social implications, never mind all the other potential applications for cognitive automation.