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Sadly, "deep learning" (much like "AI" itself) has become more of a marketing term and less of a technical term these days. If I tell someone I made a deep lea
by seiji 11y ago
Sadly, "deep learning" (much like "AI" itself) has become more of a marketing term and less of a technical term these days.
If I tell someone I made a deep learning system, it conveys no details other than it's something besides a single linear discriminator.
deep learning is in the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" phase of our never ending tech hype cycle. Like most buzzwords, it holds meaning for practitioners, but when marketing dweebs with no knowledge are hired to write endless clickbait about technical terms with no underlying understanding, it dilutes the entire vocabulary ecosystem until even the practitioners can't describe what they do using their own terminology anymore.
- nbouscal 11y agoGiven that it's so common to present RNNs as feed-forward nets with a layer for each time step, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable to group them in with deep learning.
- andreyk 11y agoTrue, it's impossible to argue "deep learning" is not in the midst of a massive hype boom, and it does just generically convey one is using a deep rather than shallow learning approach. But at least the research going on there is still quite exciting, or so it seems to me.