Should I be astonished by some field which recently got a lot of traction* made some breakthroughs ?
(*investors money)
I'm just stating that "again" in our industry, masses will now flock to "new shiny thing" simply because it is hyped and investors throw money at it. While managers will try to fit ML/DL/AI into pretty much anything either if it makes sense or not.
This flips causality - funding didn't really really pick up until the last 5 years or so - about two years after the initial breakthrough.
Look, I agree with this comment - managers are super eager to apply ML to tasks it has no business being applied to (at least yet). But your original claim was that all the new techniques are just glorified maximum likelihood optimization. That's just false.
(*investors money)
I'm just stating that "again" in our industry, masses will now flock to "new shiny thing" simply because it is hyped and investors throw money at it. While managers will try to fit ML/DL/AI into pretty much anything either if it makes sense or not.