The Truth About Deep Learning

Come on people - let's get our act together on deep learning. I've been studying and writing about DL for close to two years now, and it still amazes the misinformation surrounding this relatively complex learning algorithm. This post is not about how deep learning is or is not overhyped, as that is a well documented debate. This discussion/rant is somewhat off the cuff, but the whole point was to encourage those of us in the machine learning community to think clearly about deep learning. Let's be bold and try to make some claims based on actual science about whether or not this technology will or will not produce artificial intelligence.