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> It's more like a paradigm changer, like the print, the engine, electricity, communication and computing. Either we really disagree about deep learning, or yo
by s1t5 6y ago
> It's more like a paradigm changer, like the print, the engine, electricity, communication and computing.
Either we really disagree about deep learning, or you vastly underestimate the influence of the other technologies that you've listed.
- mattkrause 6y agoI'd maybe buy it if you broadened the claim to "quantification" or something. It's undoubtedly true that aggressively collecting and analyzing data has transformed society a lot: Taylorism, mass production, bureaucracies, science (not just data), even Guinness. However, this has been going on for ~150 years already. As for deep learning specifically...meh.