I work at a large pharma, and from what I've seen in this business and anywhere else where data is important (like R&D), deep learning is perceived to be revolutionary.
I think most of the rise in DL's corporate mindshare is the potential it has for disruption of the status quo. Business folks hate game changing tech. It destabilizes the priorities and practices they understand, and dishevels the grand hierarchy of corporate command and control they know and love.
If DL really does reinvent any significant fraction of their part of the business, they know 1) they won't know what to do in response, and 2) their daily competition is going to get even more challenging until a new status quo emerges. And both of which may cause them to lose their tenuous position/status in the company hierarchy, much less, lose their very job.
I think most of the rise in DL's corporate mindshare is the potential it has for disruption of the status quo. Business folks hate game changing tech. It destabilizes the priorities and practices they understand, and dishevels the grand hierarchy of corporate command and control they know and love.
If DL really does reinvent any significant fraction of their part of the business, they know 1) they won't know what to do in response, and 2) their daily competition is going to get even more challenging until a new status quo emerges. And both of which may cause them to lose their tenuous position/status in the company hierarchy, much less, lose their very job.