Deep Learning

Deep Learning



History #

  • Idea: Learning the feature descriptors from data, rather than hand-engineering them

What it possible #

  • We have a lot of data
  • The hardware is better (GPUs are used)
  • Cloud computing
  • Deeper -> models are more complex

Deep Learning Today #

  • Image classification
  • Object detection
  • -> Important because important for some idustries
  • -> like Self-driving cars
  • Games (AlphaGo, AlphaStar)
  • Emoticon Suggestions
  • Language translation
  • Virtual assistants
  • Medical: cancer detection, etc

Deep Learning Market & Job Perspective #

  • DL will help people do their jobs
  • Whole society will benefit
  • DL experts are and will be needed
  • High level knowledge good, but low-level needed to stand out
Calendar October 22, 2023