Are people overly infatuated with Deep Learning, and can it really deliver? Cognilytica

One of the factors often credited for this latest boom in artificial intelligence (AI) investment, research, and related cognitive technologies, is the emergence of Deep Learning AI algorithms, and the corresponding large volumes of big data and computing power that makes Deep Learning a reality. However, deep learning is just an approach to machine learning (ML), that while having proven much capability across a wide range of problem areas, is still just one particular approach. Increasingly, we're starting to see news and research showing the limits of deep learning, and some of the downsides to the deep learning approach. So we have to ask, are people's enthusiasm of AI tied to their enthusiasm of deep learning, and is deep learning really able to deliver on many of its promises? AI researchers have struggled to understand how the brain learns from the very beginnings of the development of the field of artificial intelligence.