Machine learning and deep learning have long moved past the horizon and have become rooted in the information technology age with a firm promise of wonderful things to come. This is not to say that all they can offer is yet to come. They are powerful artificial intelligence applications that are currently being used in many industries to automate and enhance the efficiency of many functions and processes. A simple definition of machine learning is the use of artificial intelligence to enable machines to learn on their own without being programmed to do so. Artificial intelligence is related to computers and is a mimic of human intelligence.
In an informative article on The Conversation, Terence Tse, Kariappa Bheemaiah, and Mark Esposito exposited on deep learning and neural networks and help us to understand what they mean. Deep learning is an enhanced method of machine learning that enables computers to learn on their own to perform tasks rather than being programmed to perform those tasks.
The basis of deep learning is neural networks. These are processing tools that are either algorithms (a set of procedures or rules) or computer hardware. They are designed based on the human brain to discern and understand numerical data patterns contained in vectors. Vectors contain a representation of everyday, real-life data such as images, sounds, texts, and time series. Neural networks allow the clustering and classification of unlabeled data based on the likeness among various data inputs.
Deep learning is currently bourgeoning due to the ever-increasing power of the computer to rapidly process data and supply the results. The computer’s power is heightened by specialized chips used in PCs and video-games consoles, which have been found to model neural networks well, and also by the internet, which contains a vast array of text, pictures, and videos that are accessible for program training.
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