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Deep Learning Essentials
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Deep Learning Essentials

by Wei Di, Jianing Wei, Anurag Bhardwaj
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
284 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is AI and deep learning?

The dream of creating certain forms of intelligence that mimic ourselves has long existed. While most of them appear in science fiction, over recent decades we have gradually been making progress in actually building intelligent machines that can perform certain tasks just like a human. This is an area called artificial intelligence. The beginning of AI can perhaps be traced back to Pamela McCorduck’s book, Machines Who Think, where she described AI as an ancient wish to forge the gods.

Deep learning is a branch of AI, with the aim specified as moving machine learning closer to its original goals: AI.

The path it pursues is an attempt to mimic the activity in layers of neurons in the neocortex, which is the wrinkly ...

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