I haven't spoken to the Here guys lately, but while they did hire a bunch of DL weenies, it looked like they mostly put them to work doing more useful things.

I haven't spoken to the Here guys lately, but while they did hire a bunch of DL weenies, it looked like they mostly put them to work doing more useful things. I'll say it again: no company depends on machine learning, other than, maybe Fair Isaac. Many use such things. They don't depend on ML. IMO the trend is in the other direction; many companies will begin to realize what they've spent on models isn't worth the returns.