Astronomers report success with machine deep learning EarthSky.org

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has networks which are capable of learning unsupervised from data that is unstructured or unlabeled. We published a story in April about an art historian using an innovative analysis technique to unlock architectural secrets. He was using a machine learning method called deep learning – which is used in, for example, facial recognition and speech recognition software – to do science. Similarly, astronomers are beginning to report the use of machine deep learning techniques to perform research that humans can't do using more traditional methods. Below we describe two recent examples: the first related to planets orbiting two stars, and the second related to classifying galaxies.