Deep Learning: The Confluence of Big Data, Big Models, Big Compute

Fueled by enterprises seeking greater insight from their analytics, deep learning is now seeing widespread adoption. While this artificial intelligence (AI) discipline was first conceived in the late 1950s, the recent jump into deep learning and other AI methods is fueled by the recent increase in hardware power, the explosion of big data and desire for greater insight in several key industries. Deep learning – and AI in general – have taken off because organizations of all sizes and industries are capturing a greater variety of data and can mine bigger data, including unstructured data such as text, speech and images. The global deep learning market is expected to grow 41 percent from 2017 to 2023, reaching $18 billion, according to a Market Research Future report. And it's not just large companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google that have big data.