Google Brain's Quoc Le speaks about Deep learning's progress and its future

Dr. Quoc Viet Le is a research scientist at Google Brain known for his path-breaking work on deep neural networks (DNN). He is especially famous for his Ph.D work in image processing under Andrew Ng, one of the pioneers of the DNN revolution. Le's and Ng's work demonstrated how computers could be used to learn complicated features and patterns in a way similar to how the mammalian brain learns. This revolutionized the interest in DNNs, and got the current giants of the computer industry such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft in a race to incorporate AI techniques into their software. DNNs perform effectively in tasks such as image processing, handwriting recognition and game-playing, and are being explored for solutions to other problems such as self-driving cars, robotics, medical diagnosis and environmental and social problems.