1.2 Wonders of the deep learning age
Over the last 10 to 15 years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the landscape of ML thanks to the enormous success of deep learning. Perhaps one of the most impressive feats of the universal impact of deep learning is that it has affected fields from medical imaging and manufacturing all the way through to tools for translation and content creation.
While deep learning has only seen great success over recent years, many of its core principles are already well established. Researchers have been working with neural networks for some time – in fact, one could argue that the first neural network was introduced by Frank Rosenblatt as early as 1957! This, of course, wasn’t as sophisticated as the models we have today, but it was an important component of these models: the perceptron, as shown in Figure 1.1.
Figure 1.1: Diagram of a single perceptron
The 1980s saw the introduction of many now-familiar concepts, with the introduction...
