> I am not trying to be a hater. Deep learning has huge potential, and Google, among others, is doing a lot to make it accessible. That said, this type of over-

> I am not trying to be a hater. Deep learning has huge potential, and Google, among others, is doing a lot to make it accessible. That said, this type of over-promising ahead of market reality is what gives cutting edge technology a bad name. Actually, this type of marketing is _exactly_ what is needed to get people interested in applications for this technology. This particular farmer, perhaps, is an unusual case in that they went straight to machine learning with sexy new tools. However, machine vision has been used for applications in agriculture even as long as 20 years ago (I know this personally :-) ) It isn't at all surprising that a farmer decided to go "cutting edge" with a little help from Google. In fact the theory for the "diffusion of innovation" was based largely on observations of FARMERS!!(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations). What I am saying is that although farmers seem to have an undeserved reputation for being low-tech, some are _very_ adept at technology especially when it has the potential to give them an advantage in the market.