[beaucronin]

That's fair pushback re how "standard" deep learning is. That said, those methods are rapidly establishing themselves as the go-to for applications in speech, vision, and text. At least for those outfits that can afford the substantial dev costs.

[agibsonccc]

This is what I am hoping to launch with the launch of skymind[1]. I believe in the potential of deep learning, especially in the ways deep learning can learn better representations for feature extraction than some hand curated models.

Practicality has always been a problem with deep learning, and I think enabling access to this powerful technology will be a great enabler for many people in the long term.

[1] http://wired.com/2014/06/skymind-deep-learning/