What Deep Learning Shares With Little Kids

I was standing around at the Turing Institute in London recently and overheard someone say, "It's starting to smell a lot like algorithms in here." The Turing Institute is fragrant with algorithms. Part of the freshness of that smell is that deep neural networks, a kind of computing system inspired by the workings of the brain, are changing the way we think about learning. Some of their tricks are not that different from what psychologists have been describing for years. But that's actually good because the world through the eyes of the algorithm is just familiar enough that old ideas start to make sense in new ways.