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For the people who want a job in deep learning, they are definitely around and they will be for a while.

It's true that DL will probably become just-another-library, but that will happen only once computing becomes extremely cheap on the petaflop scale (it isn't cheap yet). Even after that happens, the people that spend time doing DL now will be trained in a way of thinking that will be in demand for a long time.

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There's also a possibly huge amount of possible applications for DL or ML in general, someone just needs to connect the dots. So it's not entirely limited to a finite number of big companies who will be hiring them. Just having that skillset (or enough knowledge of how it works) could create your own opportunities by going out in the world and finding applications.

Just like how there were countless excel spreadsheet business processes that birthed CRUD applications.

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