Deep learning will chug along just fine. Musk and friends may have been too optimistic, but they weren’t too pessimistic – they knew that deep learning was only

Deep learning will chug along just fine. Musk and friends may have been too optimistic, but they weren’t too pessimistic – they knew that deep learning was only the first step in the not so long journey towards real AI. If you want to get a sense of how long that journey might be, ask yourself: how long did it take from Zuse to Snapchat filters? We will see machine intelligence within our lifetime will defeat humans in all fields. This does not mean that the AI singularity will arrive tomorrow. But we will soon be in a position to understand what the future will be like, and have a good idea of whether it will be pleasant or unpleasant.