"In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it." (published in xkcd in ~2010 and was subject to humiliation in DL community since 2012)
I used to be sceptic about ML in general.
- after University in 90th
- after Yandex School of Data Analysis in 2008
- after famous Andrew Ng's first course on Coursera in 2010