One synthesis of Stuart Russel’s reflections on Deep Learning:
“ Some deep learning networks get up to one thousand layers or more … The deep learning hypothesis suggests that many layers make it easier for the learning algorithm to find a predictor, to set all the connection strengths in the network so that it does a good job. … to a large extent, it’s still a kind of magic, because it really didn’t have to happen that way. why this happens is still anyone’s guess.”
in Marty Ford’s new book: principal architects of AI.
Russell Stuart is lead co-author of THE must have AI textbook
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)
this textbook is the main AI textbook used in over 1000 Universities and Colleges. If he says it’s a kind of magic … it is a kind of magic! So if you want to be one of the contemporary magicians or wizards … get on with the deep learning wands.
BONUS … Queen’s kind of magic
