Scientists say deep learning is the future of Silicon Valley tech

It may sound like something out of a dystopian novel, but scientists are confident about a machine learning technology that can recognize and replicate human activities like seeing and thinking. Leading artificial intelligence experts are investigating ways to commercialize a rapidly emerging sub-field of research known as "deep learning." This month, a research team under renowned scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton's tutelage won a prize sponsored by Merck to design software to uncover molecules that are most likely to be good candidates for new drugs. The win was a particularly impressive feat given that the team entered at the last minute and was working with relatively small data-sets. Click here to read more about "how they did it."