Honestly as much as it is slightly irritating to see deep learning hogging all the glory, there's a lot of money being sloshed around and quite a bit of it is s

Honestly as much as it is slightly irritating to see deep learning hogging all the glory, there's a lot of money being sloshed around and quite a bit of it is spilling over to non-deep learning too. Which is great. An AI winter may be coming, though I think it's at minimum several years off, since big enterprises are just getting started with the most hyped things. If the hype doesn't return on its promises enough for sustained investment (that's a rather big if since the low hanging fruit aren't yet all picked) then the companies and funding will eventually recede, maybe even trigger another winter, but just as it takes a while to ramp up, it will also take a while to course correct. In the meantime all the related areas get better funding and attention (and chance to positively contribute to secure further investment) that they'd otherwise not have since we'd still be stuck in the low funding model from the last winter.