The Pitfalls of Deep Learning

What shortcomings do you see with deep learning? Deep Learning has been incredibly successful in recent years, but it is still merely a tool for classifying items into categories (or for nonlinear regression). We have seen outstanding results in mapping images, audio segments, even board positions, into categories with ever-increasing accuracy, but AI needs to go way beyond classification and regression. Let's talk about AlphaGo, which is a phenomenal technical achievement by the team at DeepMind. Yet, the overblown claims about the impressive success of AlphaGo are a case of a person climbing to the top of the tree and shouting "I'm on my way to the moon!"