These days machine learning,blockchain, artificial intelligence, privacy, smart things just seems to be buzz word for trivial things. And in academia if student

These days machine learning,blockchain, artificial intelligence, privacy, smart things just seems to be buzz word for trivial things. And in academia if students generally mention these words so that they can get funding. Also if you are going to join company you can say "I did deep learning for this or that to impress the interviewer"