Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence
The title is clickbait, but the problem with the religious fervor of machine learning/deep learning is that entrepreneurs/VC keep arguing that deep learning is magic and can solve any problem if you just stack enough layers. (see also: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5si1f0/machine_learning_approaches/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5si1f0/mac...</a>)<p>Meanwhile, statistical methods for non-image/text data with identifiable features can often work better than neural networks, but they are not as sexy. (Good discussion on HN about this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13563892" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13563892</a>)