While there have been some good incremental improvements, I think you are overstating the place of deep learning vis a vis everything in machine learning that

While there have been some good incremental improvements, I think you are overstating the place of deep learning vis a vis everything in machine learning that came before it. The same thing happened to SVMs in the early 2000s, but with much less industry noise. NB I’m not trying to compare the impact of the two, just noting it was also over stated. After all, deep learning is fundamentally a continuation of much older techniques. And we absolutely could identify objects in pictures, we’ve been doing that for 40 years now - deep learning techniques have given a very nice jump in accuracy for some tasks but they didn’t come out of nowhere. I agree the whole labelling “AI” is problematic. That is also a many decades old problem though...