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> A few years ago my priority would have been convincing people that deep learning was a real revolution, not a fad, but there have been enough examples of shipping products that that question seems answered.

Exactly what product the author is referring to? I am having a hard time thinking one, but maybe is just me living in my bubble...

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I guess all the voice assistants use Deep Learning as it is the state of the art in voice recognition and NLP.

I'm almost certain they all offload the processing to a server though.

Well, I would argue that they are not so successful yet. I don't use them, nor any people around me do.

We, eventually, will get there, but they are not my definition of a successful product yet...

There is the exception of https://snips.ai/.

I think that offloading the processing is not functionally required, but having the data is valuable for the big corps.

Every single visual and sound classification app around. Here's a random link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pogue-8-recogniti...

All the person tagging features in Apple Photos, Google Photos, Facebook.

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