How Deep Learning will change our world. Melbourne Data Science, Jeremy Howard.

This post aims to cram in a synopsis of Jeremy Howard's talk at the inaugural Data Science Melbourne MeetUp at Inspire9 in Richmond on 12th May so may be a little disjointed in it's flow. Jeremy freestyled his delivery once he had established from the members pretty quickly with a show of hands what it was he should be talking about. There is a lack of intelligence from computers and data and what is at stake is not the proof of things we already know but knowing about the things we did not think of from data or what we should be questioning. This is where machine learning asks the computer to come up with some of the intelligence for you. Using machine learning to find the interesting insights and adding value is the huge appeal Jeremy finds in machine learning and to explain this, he kicked off with talking about Arthur Samuel who essentially came up with machine learning and invented what appeared to be the world's first self-learning program.