preface

If you’ve picked up this book, you’re probably aware of the extraordinary progress that deep learning has brought to the field of artificial intelligence. In just a handful of years, we went from nearly unusable computer vision and natural language processing to high-performing systems deployed at scale in products you use every day. The consequences of this sudden progress extend to almost every industry. Deep learning is applied to a diverse range of important problems across domains as different as medical imaging, agriculture, autonomous driving, education, disaster prevention, and manufacturing. Digital assistants are becoming pervasive on nearly every consumer computing device.