I think ML obviously has a lot of applications, but I also think things like "Neural Nets" and "self-driving cars" have great marketing. But in general I think

I think ML obviously has a lot of applications, but I also think things like "Neural Nets" and "self-driving cars" have great marketing. But in general I think software innovations are usually initially limited by hardware, so as more low powered convolutional accelerator chips come on the market you will see more and more of the technologies in self-driving cars move into smaller, more mobile, and more naturally behaving robots. And robotics is made up of numerous fields: vision, planning, sensors, sensor fusion, perception, firmware, application software, etc. So any of those will come along for the ride, ML is great but it can't interact with the world without UI and software developers and all sorts of other software specializations.