Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
I've worked in lots of big corps as a consultant.  Every one raced to harness the power of "big data" ~7 years ago.  They couldn't hire or spend money fast enough.  And for their investment they (mostly) got nothing.  The few that managed to bludgeon their map/reduce clusters in to submission and get actionable insights discovered... they paid more to get those insights than they were worth!I think this same thing is happening with ML.  It was a hiring bonanza.  Every big corp wanted to get an ML/AI strategy in place.  They were forcing ML in to places it didn't (and may never) belong.  This "recession" 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'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.