What is Deep Learning and what will the future look like?

What does Deep Learning actually look like?

• The Deep Learning Gallery - Lots of examples of deep learning in action
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
• Deep Dream - Do androids dream of electric sheep? Apparently not - they dream of Admiral Dog!
• Wavenet - Generating Speech and piano sounds just from example sounds
• Image Question Answering: A Visual Semantic Embedding Model and a New Dataset
• Anti-Facial Recognition Masks

Code

• Synaptic
• ConvNet - Play with this! It's so cool to see inside a computer brain!
• The Deep Learning Book - All of this code and instruction is available for free, online. You can become an expert in this and all you need is a laptop and a place to live and food.

What will the future look like?

Q&A

• What will be the coolest areas to apply deep learning and reinforcement learning in the next 5-10 years?
• What are the top 10 interesting areas for machine learning in the next 5 years?

Fiction

• Accelerando - SO GOOD. Such a fun book
• Her - great movie. Might be R-rated, so only watch with parent permission

Essay

• The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era
• The Future of Humanity - by Bostrom, covers four possible outcomes for humanity: Extinction, Recurrent collapse, Plateau, Posthumanity 

Video

• 2029

Homework

Read or watch any of these