- Image recognition
- Winning the games computers hadn't won already
- Incremental progress on translation. Plus translation that doesn't need as many domain experts
- Self-driving cars (with related automation applications)
Of image there, image recognition stands out as the big leap and the rest are relatively incremental. One of the things with the other applications is that they provide a recipe format that's more systematic than previous approaches. A lot of vision approaches pre-deep-learning were very hit-or-miss. Deep learning has a lot of black art involved in effective training and a lot of time investment but my impression it is more reliable than what came before.
Any other examples welcome
It's not legal yet, but it will be, because it will potentially save lives (and money).
I really don’t see this as a huge win for deep learning, anything else?
Better translation of European languages (which wasn’t a totally unsolved problem anyway) doesn’t seem to be something that really lives up to the hype.
Particularly as the article cited doesn’t seem to back up its statements very well.
So... anything else?
The original blog:
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...
Is better suggests deep learning resulted in maybe 10% improvement. Isn’t as good as human in all cases.
Also, you didn't answer the question.