deep learning

noun

deep learning

noun

Etymology Coined by Israeli-American computer scientist Rina Dechter in 1986, in the context of backtracking in theorem proving. Later applied to multilayered (“deep”) neural networks by Geoffrey Hinton.

1

A form of machine learning based on the interpretation of the structure of data.

Machine learning

  • Discovering all minimal conflict-sets amounts to acquiring all the possible information out of a dead-end. Yet, such deep learning may require considerable amount of work.1986 August 11, Rina Dechter, “Learning while searching in constraint-satisfaction-problems”, in Proceedings of the Fifth AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'86), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: AAAI Press, →DOI, pages 178–183:
  • Deep learning was given a particularly audacious display at a conference last month in Tianjin, China, when Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft’s top scientist, gave a lecture in a cavernous auditorium while a computer program recognized his words and simultaneously displayed them in English on a large screen above his head.2012 November 23, John Markoff, “Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs”, in New York Times:
Derived terms
deepfake
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DLSS

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