The missing part of the Machine Learning revolution

There's no doubt that we're entering the age of AI, with Machine Learning touching almost everything we're involved in on a day-to-day basis. Spurred on by step innovations in data storage and computing power, Neural Nets are back from the 70's with a bang. Medicine, security, customer service, fraud detection, you name it -- there are well funded companies applying Machine Learning to improve and augment it. Heck, you might have even found this post through Medium's Machine Learning-based recommender systems. Deep Learning, for whatever reason, seems to work really well for a number of problems with immediate impact.