Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
I&#x27;ve worked in lots of big corps as a consultant.  Every one raced to harness the power of &quot;big data&quot; ~7 years ago.  They couldn&#x27;t hire or spend money fast enough.  And for their investment they (mostly) got nothing.  The few that managed to bludgeon their map&#x2F;reduce clusters in to submission and get actionable insights discovered... they paid more to get those insights than they were worth!<p>I think this same thing is happening with ML.  It was a hiring bonanza.  Every big corp wanted to get an ML&#x2F;AI strategy in place.  They were forcing ML in to places it didn&#x27;t (and may never) belong.  This &quot;recession&quot; is mostly COVID related I think - but companies will discover that ML is (for the vast majority) a shiny object with no discernible ROI.  Like Big Data, I think we&#x27;ll see a few companies execute well and actually get some value, while most will just jump to the next shiny thing in a year or two.