Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2016: Deep Learning Still Missing
For the 22nd year, Gartner has released its much-discussed hype cycle report on emerging technologies, "providing a cross-industry perspective on the technologies and trends that business strategists, chief innovation officers, R&D leaders, entrepreneurs, global market developers and emerging-technology teams should consider in developing emerging-technology portfolios." Reacting to last year's hype cycle report (see below), I made the following comment: Machine learning is making its first appearance on the chart this year, but already past the peak of inflated expectations. A glaring omission here is "deep learning," the new label for and the new generation of machine learning, and one of the most hyped emerging technologies of the past couple of years. This year, Gartner has moved machine learning back a few notches, putting it at the peak of inflated expectations, still with 2 to 5 years until mainstream adoption. Is machine learning an emerging technology and is there a better term to describe what most of the hype is about nowadays in tech circles?
Oct-1-2016, 17:30:56 GMT
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