There is no doubt that exciting things are going to happen in the future, but it’s hard to predict which ones will be truly useful and have longevity. People in our field, the machine learners, they are also going to come up with innovations that will last. Some will be flashes in the pan, and some will continue and be pervasive and persistent in the future. If you ask me however, the solutions that are based on first discovering the fundamentals and then exploiting that knowledge to put together the algorithms, are the ones that will succeed, and that is where I tend to focus my time.