| If you believe a few assumptions: 1. Machine learning will come to play a more important role in the future (not less) 2. Machine learning is a wide field with many areas of complexity and a wide variety of applications, many not yet discovered 3. Deep learning is an exciting area in machine learning research showing promising (state of the art?) results in several domains Then I think a few conclusions follow: 1. New tools will address this market, both free and commercial. 2. Services will be a major part of this ecosystem (see history of databases, ERP, CRM) and those consultants both use and sell tools (applications) 3. Deep learning is interesting, quite possibly worth using, and changing rapidly. But it doesn't negate what came before it (or after). So the answer here is all of the above models will be important, with the application of machine learning to everything really being the larger umbrella opportunity, and deep learning currently being an interesting avenue of research? |