Deep Learning with JavaScript

Chapter 1. Deep learning and JavaScript

This chapter covers

• What deep learning is and how it is related to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
• What makes deep learning stand out among various machine-learning techniques, and the factors that led to the current “deep-learning revolution”
• The reasons for doing deep learning in JavaScript using TensorFlow.js
• The overall organization of this book

All the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) is happening for a good reason: the deep-learning revolution, as it is sometimes called, has indeed happened. Deep-learning revolution refers to the rapid progress made in the speed and techniques of deep neural networks that started around 2012 and is still ongoing. Since then, deep neural ...