How machine learning's hype is hurting its promise - TechRepublic

Everybody seems to want to get in on the machine learning hype these days. According to the head of Google's DeepMind team, however, "There's only a few hundred people in the world that can do that really well." No wonder that Gartner has machine learning at the absolute apex of its 2016 Hype Cycle. Nothing else promises to do so much to transform humanity...with such an anemic record to show for itself. This isn't to suggest that artificial intelligence has a bleak future, but rather that we're getting way ahead of ourselves in terms of what it's delivering today.