Taking the pulse of machine learning adoption ZDNet

A few months back, we gave our take on a survey from the O'Reilly folks regarding interest in deep learning. The survey reported that interest was more than latent, but there's little question that the bulk of the action today is in the (relatively) better understood confines of machine learning (ML). So on this go round, O'Reilly jumped into the shallower side of the pond to survey the people who subscribe to its publications and go to its big data-related Strata and AI conferences regarding ML. Before diving in, let's put some perspective on this cohort: it's likely a group that on average is ahead of the curve by virtue of its attendance at these big data events or consumption of O'Reilly learning services that are skewing increasingly toward the AI domain. Nonetheless, it provides a useful counterpoint to their earlier work exploring interest in deep learning.