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184 | Gary Marcus on Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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What Is Deep Learning?

Deep learning is a way of doing statistical analysis on large quantities of data. It can be used to solve problems such as navigation and speech recognition. For these problems where we have billions or trillions of training examples, its usually the right way to go. But what is it? How does it work?

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