[Shinmon]

> I did use various deep learning methods as a black box for particular tasks they seemed good at. However, I never really liked doing it and at this point I'm starting to feel like a dinosaur not being able or willing to adapt to the new reality.

I think this is actually the new reality. Only few people will work on (advanced) deep learning model and the users will only adjust them to their use cases and applications.

I do understand your issue though, because I have been feeling the same about deep learning and never really had much of an application in my professional life either. It just takes too much time to get to a level where you can actually generate insights.

Besides, most people who do deep learning that I know are the first to tell you, to stick to traditional ML techniques until it's not enough anymore.

[soinus]

Thanks for the answer. On one side I'm happy it mirrors my understanding, but on the other I kinda feel some sadness for simple small beautiful solutions. A lot of models feel like brute force to me.

[Shinmon]

It's just a hype topic at the moment. Everyone wants to do AI with crazy deep learning models. I am sure, this will subside eventually.