we may be currently witnessing the third cycle of ai hype and disappointment-and we're still in the phase of intense optimism it' best to moderate our expectations for the short term and make sure people less familiar with the technical side of the field have clear idea of what deep learning can and can' deliver the promise of ai although we may have unrealistic short-term expectations for aithe long-term picture is looking bright we're only getting started in applying deep learning to many important problems for which it could prove transformativefrom medical diagnoses to digital assistants ai research has been moving forward amazingly quickly in the past five yearsin large part due to level of funding never before seen in the short history of aibut so far relatively little of this progress has made its way into the products and processes that form our world most of the research findings of deep learning aren' yet appliedor at least not applied to the full range of problems they can solve across all industries your doctor doesn' yet use aiand neither does your accountant you probably don' use ai technologies in your day-to-day life of courseyou can ask your smartphone simple questions and get reasonable answersyou can get fairly useful product recommendations on amazon comand you can search for "birthdayon google photos and instantly find those pictures of your daughter' birthday party from last month that' far cry from where such technologies used to stand but such tools are still only accessories to our daily lives ai has yet to transition to being central to the way we workthinkand live right nowit may seem hard to believe that ai could have large impact on our worldbecause it isn' yet widely deployed--much asback in it would have been difficult to believe in the future impact of the internet back thenmost people didn' see how the internet was relevant to them and how it was going to change their lives the same is true for deep learning and ai today but make no mistakeai is coming in notso-distant futureai will be your assistanteven your friendit will answer your questionshelp educate your kidsand watch over your health it will deliver your groceries to your door and drive you from point to point it will be your interface to an increasingly complex and information-intensive world andeven more importantai will help humanity as whole move forwardby assisting human scientists in new breakthrough discoveries across all scientific fieldsfrom genomics to mathematics on the waywe may face few setbacks and maybe new ai winter--in much the same way the internet industry was overhyped in - and suffered from crash that dried up investment throughout the early but we'll get there eventually ai will end up being applied to nearly every process that makes up our society and our daily livesmuch like the internet is today don' believe the short-term hypebut do believe in the long-term vision it may take while for ai to be deployed to its true potential-- potential the full extent of which no one has yet dared to dream--but ai is comingand it will transform our world in fantastic way licensed to