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B. WalshProductionizing AIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8817-7_5

5. Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Barry Walsh1  
(1)
Ely, UK
 

At the heart of most of today’s “flagship” or “hyped-up” applications of Artificial Intelligence is Deep Learning, and, specifically the use and predictive power of Artificial Neural Networks, or ANNs.

How these neural networks consume vast amounts of data in order to operate and ultimately achieve, often astonishingly sophisticated predictions is the subject of this chapter.

More specifically, the main takeaways of this chapter are knowing where to start with AI, from the historical context and the business/user journey from machine ...

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