What Deep Learning Can Do For Business

Every so often a new technology buzzword appears, to be picked up and repeated ad infinitum in presentations, pitches and articles just like this. From big data to blockchain, they are convenient selling tools, a necessary shorthand; but all too often our knowledge of what they actually refer to is only skin-deep. And there are few terms more mysterious to the uninitiated as deep learning. The problem is that to use these technologies effectively, or even develop a strategy around them, we need to fully understand their nature and their capabilities before we start. The deep learning market is predicted to grow rapidly in the next few years to reach $1.7 billion by 2022, fuelled by growing usage across a wide range of industries.