Chapter 9
Moving to Deep Learning
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the sources and uses of data
Processing data faster
Considering the deep learning difference
Defining smarter deep learning solutions
Chapters 7 and 8 look at AI from a machine learning perspective, with a little added information for deep learning. This chapter looks exclusively at deep learning, because you actually need deep learning solutions to work with today’s overabundance of data in a smart way. Although machine learning adds the capability to learn to the AI arsenal, it’s essential to realize from the outset that computers have limitations — they don’t actually understand what humans are doing. Algorithms, which are mathematical representations of various data interpretation processes, control everything. So the first part of this chapter looks at data from a deep learning perspective because you need huge amounts of data to perform pattern matching effectively.
As you move from AI to machine learning to deep learning, the computational requirements increase. In fact, one of the major reasons for AI winters ...