Hands-On Deep Learning with Go

DL – a history

We will now briefly cover the history of DL and the historical context from which it emerged, including the following:

• The idea of AI
• The beginnings of computer science/information theory
• Current academic work about the state/future of DL systems

While we are specifically interested in DL, the field didn't emerge out of nothing. It is a group of models/algorithms within ML itself, a branch of computer science. It forms one approach to AI. The other, so-called symbolic AI, revolves around hand-crafted (rather than learned) features and rules written in code, rather than a weighted model that contains patterns extracted from data algorithmically.

The idea of thinking machines, before becoming a science, was very much a fiction ...