What Is Deep Learning? - DZone AI

This term "deep learning" has been on fire for past two decades. Every machine learning enthusiast wants to work on it and many big companies are already making an impact in the data science field by exploring it -- for example, the Google Brain project from Google or DeepFace from Facebook. This means that the performance of other algorithms stays constant but the performance of deep learning increases. According to a talk given by Andrew Ng from Coursera, the core of deep learning is that we now have enough fast computers and data to train our algorithms. Deep learning comes into focus when we have to consider very large data that can't be fully utilized by any other algorithms.