AI and ML Futures 2: The Quiet Revolution

First of all, I want to highlight something that seems to go missing in the current hype. There is a lot more to machine learning than deep convolutional neural nets and recurrent nets. I don't want to diminish the contribution of those methods, there have been some really cool breakthroughs in these domains. However, they rely on very large data and massive computational capabilities. However, many problems involve less data and even when there is large data it can be the case that the computational demands of conv-nets and recurrent networks are too high (just like they were 20 years ago when these methods were first proposed!).