Why You Should be a Little Scared of Machine Learning

There's been a huge amount of progress in machine learning in the last five years, largely due to breakthroughs in deep learning. You might not be directly aware of it, but we're at the beginning of a machine learning boom right now, a neural network renaissance. Google and Facebook are pouring huge amounts of money into deep learning. In the next few years, we're going to see the fruits of these investments. Self-driving cars, automatic closed captions and more accurate machine translation come to mind, but I would argue that the ramifications are going to quickly expand much beyond this.