Deep Neural Networks: Understanding the Tech Behind AI

Accenture's research predicts that AI use could double annual economic growth rates in more than a dozen developed economies by 2035. But as AI adoption grows, it will change the way businesses operate, forging a new relationship between humans and machines that's expected to increase labor productivity by up to 40 percent, Accenture says. Changing business dynamics through AI will depend largely upon the use of deep neural networks, an outgrowth of artificial neural networks. Harvard Business Review has estimated that 40 percent of the potential value created by analytics today comes from deep learning underpinned by DNNs. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have existed in computational neurobiology since the late 1950s, when psychologist Frank Rosenblatt created what's known as perceptrons.