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Published inMar 2019
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Niloy Purkait
Niloy Purkait
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Niloy Purkait

Niloy Purkait is a technology and strategy consultant by profession. He currently resides in the Netherlands, where he offers his consulting services to local and international companies alike. He specializes in integrated solutions involving artificial intelligence, and takes pride in navigating his clients through dynamic and disruptive business environments. He has a masters in Strategic Management from Tilburg University, and a full specialization in data science from Michigan University. He has advanced industry grade certifications from IBM, in subjects like signal processing, cloud computing, machine and deep learning. He is also perusing advanced academic degrees in several related fields, and is a self-proclaimed lifelong learner.
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The road ahead

While the previous diagram depicting the advances in processing power might make us look back in nostalgia over how far we have come, this same nostalgia will be wiped away quite fast as soon as we realize how far we still have to go.

As we saw in the preceding diagram, the computational power of the systems we have implemented so far are nowhere near that of a human brain. The neural networks that we devised (at least in this book) had a number of neurons ranging anywhere from a million (the equivalent of what you would find in a cockroach) to about ten million (close to what is common for an adult zebra fish).

Attempting to train a network that parallels a human mind, at least in the number of neurons used, is currently beyond the scope of human engineering, as of the date of this book. It simply surpasses our current computing capacity. Moreover, it is important...

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Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789536089

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Niloy Purkait

Niloy Purkait is a technology and strategy consultant by profession. He currently resides in the Netherlands, where he offers his consulting services to local and international companies alike. He specializes in integrated solutions involving artificial intelligence, and takes pride in navigating his clients through dynamic and disruptive business environments. He has a masters in Strategic Management from Tilburg University, and a full specialization in data science from Michigan University. He has advanced industry grade certifications from IBM, in subjects like signal processing, cloud computing, machine and deep learning. He is also perusing advanced academic degrees in several related fields, and is a self-proclaimed lifelong learner.
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