The power of deep learning - SD Times

Deep learning, or a class of machine learning algorithms, is showing great promise, primarily because it's getting results. Deep learning historically was largely inaccessible because it had such high demand on computational resource and data, but with the progression of technology, storage costs have come down and the computation has gone up, said CEO of Bonsai, Mark Hammond. It demands a lot of resources, but there are a few organizations focusing on making this technology and research accessible and easy to use (think: OpenAI or Google's DeepMind). According to vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, Mike Gualtieri, machine learning is trying to find a predictive model, whereas deep learning is based upon a hierarchical network, roughly fashioned after the human brain, he said. Since it's modeled after the brain, people argue that deep learning actually lets systems "learn," said Gualtieri.