Why Deep Learning May Not Be So 'Deep' After All

Deep learning has given us tremendous new powers to spot patterns hidden in great globs of data. For some challenges, neural networks can even outperform top human experts. However, despite all the progress the new approach represents and the hope that it will lead us to actual artificial intelligence, there are big limits on the practical application of deep learning. Deep learning has emerged as the latest "easy button" for big data analytics. The thinking seems to go like this: Got a lot of data to analyze?