July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
234 pages
6h 5m
English
Chapter 1: Introduction
This is a book about deep learning, but it is not a book about artificial intelligence.
In the remainder of this introduction, we explain those two statements in detail with a simple goal in mind: to help you determine whether this book is for you.
Let’s begin by briefly discussing deep learning (DL)—more specifically, its pros, cons, and applicability. Then we will discuss the main motivation of this book: execution speed of analytics. We will defer a discussion on the mechanics of DL to Chapter 2.
For our discussion, we view DL as a technology with a straightforward goal: ...