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What is Deep learning? Definition and explanations

Deep learning is a branch of machine learning based on neural networks with many layers. Each layer learns an increasingly abstract representation of the data, which removes the need to hand-describe the relevant features. It dominates vision, speech and language, at the cost of large data volumes and significant compute.

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Deep learning stacks layers of neurons that learn useful representations on their own.

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