Machine Learning's Limits (Part 1): Why machine learning works in some cases and not in others.

Rowen: Machine learning and deep learning are giving us some powerful tools in what, for most of us, is an entirely new area of computing. There are a bunch of problems that historically have been difficult or esoteric, or really hard to get a handle on, which now we can systematically do better than we were ever able to do in the past. That's particularly true when it's in the form of, 'Here's some phenomenon we're trying to understand and we're trying to reproduce it in some fashion. We need an approximate model for that.' There are a whole bunch of problems that fall into that domain.