Introduction to Deep Learning Business Applications for Developers: From Conversational Bots in Customer Service to Medical Image Processing

©  Armando Vieira, Bernardete Ribeiro 2018

Armando Vieira and Bernardete RibeiroIntroduction to Deep Learning Business Applications for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3453-2_10

10. Business Impact of DL Technology

Armando Vieira¹  and Bernardete Ribeiro²

(1)

Linköping, Sweden

(2)

Coimbra, Portugal

 

“I was a skeptic [about deep learning] for a long time, but the progress now is real. The results are real. It works.”

—Marc Andreessen, American entrepreneur

The falling costs of computation and the ease of accessing cloud-managed clusters have democratized AI in a way we’ve never seen before. In the past, building a computer cluster to train a deep neural network was prohibitively expensive. You also needed someone with a PhD in mathematics ...