Deep Learning with Python

Preface

If you’ve picked up this book, you’re probably aware of the extraordinary progress that deep learning has represented for the field of artificial intelligence in the recent past. In a mere five years, we’ve gone from near-unusable image recognition and speech transcription, to superhuman performance on these tasks.

The consequences of this sudden progress extend to almost every industry. But in order to begin deploying deep-learning technology to every problem that it could solve, we need to make it accessible to as many people as possible, including non-experts—people who aren’t researchers or graduate students. For deep learning to reach its full potential, we need to radically democratize it.

When I released the first version of the ...