The Commoditization of Deep Learning – Geoffrey Bradway – Medium

It is getting easier and easier to do deep learning (DL). There exist papers, blogs, frameworks, books, courses, newsletters, conferences, and many more resources. If you don't want to implement it yourself, there are machine learning (ML) API services on AWS, GCE, Azure and companies like Clarifai and Bonsai, to name a few. Thinking back to a few years ago, neural nets were sometimes regarded as "just a fad" --I can remember skipping this topic in my grad school ML class because the professor didn't like them and thought they were hyped. So let's talk about some of things that have happened to the field of DL in the last few years that have shifted this view.