front matter
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. We went from near-unusable computer vision and natural language processing to highly performant systems deployed at scale in products you use every day. The consequences of this sudden progress extend to almost every industry. We’re already applying deep learning to an amazing range of important problems across domains as different as medical imaging, agriculture, autonomous driving, education, disaster prevention, and manufacturing.
Yet, I believe deep learning is still in its early days. It has only realized a small fraction of its potential so far. Over time, it will make its way to every problem where it can help—a transformation that will take place over multiple decades.