Is Yann Le Cun the new Marie Curie?

Deep learning has met increasing hype in the last few years, and with lots of practical success. But does that necessarily indicate an exponential growth in AI over the next few years? "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run" In order to understand what's to come, we need to figure out where we are exactly in the development of not only deep learning, but AI in general. The Gartner hype curve gives some perspective about the adoption of a technology in the enterprise over a five- to 10-year perspective. One way to look at AI is to stop considering it as an invention where we endlessly invent new techniques, but instead view it as more are a discovery where mankind is slowly (and quite empirically) discovering, step by step, the behaviour of self-learning systems.