Ah. The good old AI cycle. Scientist: X can help us get full AI! You: Why? Scientist: Because of reason R. You: But, reason R is a non sequitur... More ser

Ah. The good old AI cycle. Scientist: X can help us get full AI! You: Why? Scientist: Because of reason R. You: But, reason R is a non sequitur... More seriously, reasons similar to that for deep learning have been repeated multiple times in AI with failure (e.g. Thinking Machines). I would suggest that these folks remain calm and build something on the scale of IBM's Watson using just deep learning..