What Execs Should Know About Deep Learning - InformationWeek

From Uber using past trips to predict its customers' future habits to Facebook automatically tagging a picture you upload of your family, data is everywhere these days, and smart companies are using it to inform a better experience for their customers. Could the same be true for your company? When it comes to making sense of big data, enterprises are heavily invested in machine learning. Simply put, machine learning uses algorithms to find patterns in data fed to it by humans. Typically, machine learning deals with data that is relatively simple.