{"id":57383,"date":"2016-10-27T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=57383"},"modified":"2016-10-27T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:03:16","slug":"why-deep-learning-is-suddenly-changing-your-life-parloff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/10\/27\/why-deep-learning-is-suddenly-changing-your-life-parloff\/","title":{"rendered":"Why deep learning is suddenly changing your life [Parloff]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why deep learning is suddenly changing your life<\/strong><\/a> — from fortune.com by Roger Parloff<\/p>\n

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Most obviously, the speech-recognition functions on our smartphones work much better than they used to. When we use a voice command to call our spouses, we reach them now. We aren\u2019t connected to Amtrak or an angry ex.<\/p>\n

In fact, we are increasingly interacting with our computers by just talking to them, whether it\u2019s Amazon\u2019s Alexa, Apple\u2019s Siri, Microsoft\u2019s Cortana, or the many voice-responsive features of Google. Chinese search giant Baidu says customers have tripled their use of its speech interfaces in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n

Machine translation and other forms of language processing have also become far more convincing, with Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Baidu unveiling new tricks every month. Google Translate now renders spoken sentences in one language into spoken sentences in another for 32 pairs of languages, while offering text translations for 103 tongues, including Cebuano, Igbo, and Zulu. Google\u2019s Inbox app offers three ready-made replies for many incoming emails.
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\nBut what most people don\u2019t realize is that all these breakthroughs are, in essence, the same breakthrough. They\u2019ve all been made possible by a family of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques popularly known as deep learning, though most scientists still prefer to call them by their original academic designation: deep neural networks.<\/p>\n

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Even the Internet metaphor doesn\u2019t do justice to what AI with deep learning will mean, in Ng\u2019s view. \u201cAI is the new electricity,\u201d he says. \u201cJust as 100 years ago electricity transformed industry after industry, AI will now do the same.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cOur sales teams are using neural nets to recommend which prospects to contact next or what kinds of product offerings to recommend.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One way to think of what deep learning does is as \u201cA to B mappings,\u201d says Baidu\u2019s Ng. \u201cYou can input an audio clip and output the transcript. That\u2019s speech recognition.\u201d As long as you have data to train the software, the possibilities are endless, he maintains. \u201cYou can input email, and the output could be: Is this spam or not?\u201d Input loan applications, he says, and the output might be the likelihood a customer will repay it. Input usage patterns on a fleet of cars, and the output could advise where to send a car next.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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