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What I Talk About When I Talk About Deep Learning
An Introduction

Abstract

Deep Learning - and its derivative buzzwords - are discussed a lot at tech companies working on AI-oriented products. This often causes a serious knowledge gap between those who are doing "it" and those who don’t.

This problem is everywhere in those organizations - from daily standups to company-wide meetings - and even extremely experienced developers sometimes lack basic understanding of what their colleagues are talking about. Needless to say, this problem sometimes deepens outside the engineering and research groups of larger companies.

Watching this knowledge gap over the years, I have composed a 1 hour lecture that successfully demonstrates what deep learning is. This lecture is relevant to both people with vast technical and mathematical knowledge (but no machine or deep learning backgrounds) and to non-R&D employees who want to know what is being talked about around them.

My talk intentionally lacks formulas, uses mostly visual aids and can be dynamically adapted to its audience technical level. For ease of presenting things visually, the examples in this talk are based on computer vision and parallel examples from current trends in text-understanding and natural language processing are presented on-the-fly if the audience requests it.

Who is The Target Audience?

  • Organizations where deep learning is prominent, but not understood enough by the people who don't actively practice it. This can be the senior management, the product team or the rest of the R&D (or all of them combined).
  • The lecture works for groups of all sizes; this can be an intimate, 2-4 people room or company wide.
  • Data science teams that want to look into deep learning in the future, specifically for working on images.
  • Founders and tech leaders who want to understand the world of deep learning better from technical and product point of views.
  • Entrepreneurs who want to better understand how deep learning can shape their future companies.

Syllabus

  • What is classical/shallow (e.g. non-deep) machine learning?
  • How does machine learning work on images?
  • What is deep learning? What makes them "deep"?
  • What caused the recent (2014 and on) deep learning boom?
  • A (tiny!) bit on deep learning hardware (a personal passion of mine).
  • Some real world examples
  • Open discussion