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gdahl t1_j6uc1bh wrote

Reply to comment by Screye in [D] What does a DL role look like in ten years? by PassingTumbleweed

Deep learning existed as a field in 2012. The speech recognition community had already adopted deep learning by that point. The Brain team at Google already existed. Microsoft, IBM, and Google were all using deep learning. As an academic subfield, researchers started to coalesce around "deep learning" as a brand in 2006, but it certainly was very niche at that point.

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gdahl t1_j6upct4 wrote

I would say the turning point was when we published the first successful large vocabulary results with deep acoustic models in April 2011, based on work conducted over the summer of 2010. When we published the paper you mention, it was to recognize that these techniques were the new standard in top speech recognition groups.

Regardless, there were deep learning roles in tech companies in 2012, just not very many of them compared to today.

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