Deep learning 101

The human mind has always intrigued philosophers, scientists, and engineers alike. The desire to imitate and replicate the intelligence of the human brain by man has been written about over many years; Galatea by Pygmalion of Cyprus in Greek mythology, Golem in Jewish folklore, and Maya Sita in Hindu mythology are just a few examples. Robots with Artificial Intelligence (AI) are a favorite of (science) fiction writers since time immemorial.

 

AI, as we know today, was conceived parallel with the idea of computers. The seminal paper, A Logical Calculus Of The Ideas Immanent In Nervous Activity, in the year 1943 by McCulloch and Pitts proposed the first neural network model—the threshold devices that could perform logical operations such as AND, OR, AND-NOT. In his pioneering work, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, published in the year 1950, Alan Turing proposed a Turing test; a test to identify whether a machine has intelligence or not. Rosenblatt, in 1957, laid the base...