Results are important, but don't worship short-term results at the expense of everything else.
Deep learning (and other machine learning techniques that are forced to call themselves deep learning to get attention) are getting great results right now, yes. It's important to follow these results, to use them, and to try to understand them.
But when this approach hits a local maximum, do you want AI Winter #3, or do you want there to be another approach that people have been working on?
Deep learning (and other machine learning techniques that are forced to call themselves deep learning to get attention) are getting great results right now, yes. It's important to follow these results, to use them, and to try to understand them.
But when this approach hits a local maximum, do you want AI Winter #3, or do you want there to be another approach that people have been working on?