Has Deep Learning Made Traditional Machine Learning Irrelevant?

Summary: The data science press is so dominated by articles on AI and Deep Learning that it has led some folks to wonder whether Deep Learning has made traditional machine learning irrelevant. Here we explore both sides of that argument. On Quora the other day I saw a question from an aspiring data scientist that asked – since all the competitions on Kaggle these days are being won by Deep Learning algorithms, does it even make sense to bother studying traditional machine learning methods? Has Deep Learning made traditional machine learning irrelevant? I can understand on a couple of levels why he asked the question.