Deep Learning

Abstract

Deep learning is a subfield of machine learning and artificial intelligence that uses deep, multilayered artificial neural networks (Figure 7-1). It is all the rage these days due to its ability to perform human-like tasks with exceptional accuracy. Advances in the field of deep learning have opened up exciting possibilities in the areas of computer vision, speech recognition, gaming, and anomaly detection, to mention a few. The mainstream availability of GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) catapulted the global adoption of artificial intelligence almost overnight. High-performance computing has gotten powerful enough that tasks that seemed computationally impossible just a few years ago are now routinely performed on multi-GPU cloud instances or clusters of inexpensive machines. This has allowed numerous innovations in the field of artificial intelligence to develop at a rate that was not possible in the past.