In December, deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio and AI researcher Gary Marcus engaged in a high-profile televised debate about whether deep learning was the right path forward for AI. Theoretical frontiers and commercial applications of deep learning represent two very different problem sets. Deep learning may be bumping up against conceptual limits as a model of intelligence, but opportunities to apply it to transform industries and enact massive real-world change still abound. And the business opportunities that deep learning enables have barely begun to be developed. Examining images for the presence of a medical condition like cancer is an exercise in pattern recognition and object classification—exactly what deep learning excels at.

Source: Forbes February 10, 2020 01:30 UTC