What is Deep Learning and How Does It Work? – Robotic Vision Resources Hub

Now you're thinking: Welcome to the world of machine learning and deep-neural networks Facebook automatically finds and tags friends in your photos. Google Deepmind's AlphaGo computer program trounced champions at the ancient game of Go last year. Skype translates spoken conversations in real time – and pretty accurately too. Behind all this is a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. But what is deep learning and how does it work?