Hype associated with deep learning 

People in the media and those outside the field of AI, or people who are not real practitioners of AI and DL, have been suggesting that things like the story line of the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day could become reality as AI/DL advances. Some of them even talk about a time in which we will become controlled by robots, where robots decide what is good for humanity. At present, the ability of AI is exaggerated far beyond its true capabilities. Currently, most DL systems are deployed in a very controlled environment and are given a limited decision boundary.

My guess is that when these systems can learn to make intelligent decisions, rather than merely completing pattern matching and, when hundreds or thousands of DL algorithms can work together, then maybe we can expect to see robots that could probably behave like the ones we see in science fiction movies. In reality, we are no closer to general artificial intelligence, where machines can do anything without being told to do so. The current state of DL is more about finding patterns from existing data to predict future outcomes. As DL practitioners, we need to differentiate between signal and noise.