An Executive Primer to Deep Learning

As shown in the figure above, the computing power increased by 10,000 times since the year 2000. The cost of storing the data has also gone down by around 3000 times since the year 2000. There has been an exponential growth of data created due to the rise of the internet, the smartphone revolution and the social media. Data is ubiquitously available now. These three ingredients created a milieu for a perfect storm for deep learning.