Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

Deep learning and the future – 2012-Present

AI has made further strides in the past several years than in the 60-odd years since its birth. Its popularity has further been fueled by the increasingly public nature of its benefits – self-driving cars, personal assistants, and its ever-ubiquitous use in social media and advertising. For most of its history, AI was a field with little interaction with the average populace, but now it's come to the forefront of international discourse.

Today's age of AI has been the result of three trends:

• The increasing amount of data and computing power available to AI researchers and practitioners
• Ongoing research by Geoffrey Hinton and his lab at the University of Toronto into deep neural networks
• Increasingly ...