It's way overhyped, but there's still a ton of potential. People are making progress on a ton of fronts, and there's lots of incredibly lucrative not-so-sexy st

It's way overhyped, but there's still a ton of potential. People are making progress on a ton of fronts, and there's lots of incredibly lucrative not-so-sexy stuff happening you won't see on HN. There's way too much hype on the promise of sci-fi like "AI" but people are coming up with novel ML/stats all the time. If there are practically useful AI-ish breakthroughs (the kind we may not see coming), that's cool, but not necessary to keep motivating investors/grant-writers to throw money at all it all. As for deep learning, it doesn't feel like the well is starting to dry up or anything.