Deep learning practitioners in industry practice a trade. These individuals should not be treated, evaluated, or criticized as if they were scientists. However,

Deep learning practitioners in industry practice a trade. These individuals should not be treated, evaluated, or criticized as if they were scientists. However, I do agree that people who claim to be doing scientific research should be judged as scientists :-) > "Trades" don't have conferences and journals and researchers whose job it is to publish in them Actually, there is a remarkably large number of associations, conferences, journals, and researchers for a remarkably large number of trades. I mean, you can find researchers in, say, the trucking trade figuring out whether using one type of wheel or another can reduce costs per mile driven by a cent or two in a particular class of trailer truck. The number of trade associations in the US alone is close to 100,000, covering nearly every aspect and level of skill in our economy: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+trade+associations+are+there+in+the+us https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+trade+associations+...