Something about the current deep learning hype reminds me of fractals and cellular automata back in the day.<p>They&#x27;re all very important and useful scientific advances that can be used to produce visuals that seem to automatically create something strikingly natural. This seems to make people kind of overreach about exactly how much of nature can be represented by this one method alone.<p>The world is probably not a fractal, the universe is probably not a cellular automaton, and the mind is probably not a &quot;deep learning system&quot; either (of the specific type currently implied by the term).