Is Deep Learning "Software 2.0"? – Intuition Machine – Medium

Andrej Karpathy has an article "Software 2.0" that makes the argument that Neural Networks (or Deep Learning) is a new kind of software. I do agree that there indeed a trend towards "teachable machines" as opposed to the more conventional programmable machines, however I do have an issue with some of the benefits that Karpathy mentions to back-up his thesis. Certainly Deep Learning is already eating the Machine Learning world with advances across the board. Karpathy mentions several well known ones: visual recognition, speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, robotics and games. This frames his argument about the sea change in computing and perhaps its time to think about a new kind of software (I guess the kind that you teach like a dog instead of programming).