Neural nets: How Regular Expressions brought about Deep Learning - Import.io

If 2015 was the year of Machine Learning, 2016 is going to be the year of Deep Learning, whose popularity has been on a steep incline ever since Google bought DeepMind at the end of 2014. Last year's technical breakthroughs, acquisitions, funding deals and, open source releases have all helped to cement Deep Learning as the hip artificial intelligence. Our CTO, Matt Painter, explains how Deep Learning got its start. How does my brain work? Starting with Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne, scientists began exploring how neurons work in the 1890s by pressing on different parts of the brain to see what would happen.