Christopher Manning, a somewhat famous NLP researcher before and during the deep learning craze, has a great perspective on this that echoes your statements whi

Christopher Manning, a somewhat famous NLP researcher before and during the deep learning craze, has a great perspective on this that echoes your statements which I recommend reading: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/COLI_a_00239 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/COLI_a_00239