A Vision for Making Deep Learning Simple

When MapReduce was introduced 15 years ago, it showed the world a glimpse into the future. For the first time, engineers at Silicon Valley tech companies could analyze the entire Internet. MapReduce, however, provided low-level APIs that were incredibly difficult to use, and as a result, this "superpower" was a luxury -- only a small fraction of highly sophisticated engineers with lots of resources could afford to use it. Today, deep learning has reached its "MapReduce" point: it has demonstrated is potential; it is the "superpower" of Artificial Intelligence. Its accomplishments were unthinkable a few years ago: self-driving cars and AlphaGo would have been considered miracles.