Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: The Crazy Story of Deep Learning

Deep learning is at the front and center of the artificial intelligence(AI) revolution these days but it was never like that. The history of deep learning is the story of a small group of researchers that had the crazy idea that neural networks were the most efficient way to enable machine intelligence at the time the technology was not even close to be ready. This group of AI legends patiently waited decades of failure and rejection in the technology markets including a couple of the so called “AI Winters”. It all turned around a few years ago and now deep learning has become the cornerstone of AI application development.

Earlier this year, the Turing Award( also known as the Nobel of computer science) was awarded to three AI legends Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. This week, Mr. Bengio delivered his Turing Award lecture at the
Heidelberg Laureate Forum and he focused history of deep learning research. In 45 minutes and using simple explanations, Mr. Bengio walks the audience through the evolution of deep learning from the…