Where is Deep Learning Heading?

Deep learning is the fastest growing field in machine learning and is used to solve many big data problems such as computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. It's used across multiple industries and as a method of overcoming real world problems like preventing disease, building smart cities, revolutionising analytics and so much more. Whilst deep learning is being adopted by businesses of all shapes and sizes, it can be overwhelming. Until very recently, its implementation has only been realistic for large companies with access to huge amounts of data such as images, signals and text to provide to the machine in order for it to learn. Smaller businesses or researchers who have limited historical data have previously been missing out; however there are ways of overcoming this barrier to implement deep learning methods.