Article was pretty disappointing. It's not that he did not make valid (although general and vague) points, but the question "Why deep learning is a mandate for humans" was not answered in a satisfying manner at all.
Before reading, I did ctrl+f for the keywords in the title and straight away realized it will be misleading. Wasn't proven wrong and hence not disappointed. For some reason, I was hoping to find some hack on learning better
The hack, though not stated, seems to be visit coursera and start learning or start machine learning :) which is a current course by Ng.
I was similarily disappointed by the AMA. It didn't reveal anything new and just sounded like someone selling deep learning technology.
Haven't you heard? They discovered "deep learning for humans". It's called Coursera. Now, deep learning can be a mandate for both humans and machines.
Yeah, do they choose title for the article even before the interview, these days?