Have the proposed impact of Neural Nets come to light yet? I don’t say this in a snarky way. In my life I don’t encounter them much or at all and thinking about Google specifically their search results don’t seem to be getting better.
This stuff is already making massive impacts, and yet it’s still in the early stages. The meeting in the article was less than 10 years ago. Just imagine in 20 or 30 years from now.
- Siri, Alexa, Google assistant all use deep learning for both understanding your speech and creating artificial voices
- Automatic translation
- Anything where you search for images or with images
- Virtual lenses in Snapchat/Messenger/etc, portrait mode and artificial depth of field in cell phone cameras
- Any recommendation system like YouTube, Spotify, or Tik Tok
- Tesla autopilot
- Image upscaling in video games
- Facebook/Google/anyone targeting you in ads
e.g. look at translation. It was not usable a decade ago
Neural nets are incredibly good.
With that said, I generally feel like my life has not been impacted greatly. Siri can barely tell me anything other than the first paragraph of a wikipedia page or today's weather. I don't search my photos often. I don't translate languages often, and I'm not in a back office in charge of moderation.