Deep Learning: Miracle or Snake Oil

The latest craze are deep neural networks. How does deep learning work and are neural networks a modern miracle or yet another false dawn A lecture by Richard Harvey, IT Livery Company Professor of IT 19 March 2019 Machine Learning has had several excitements over the years with machines that are modelled on the human brain. The invention of the perceptron and artificial neural networks were followed by intense scientific activity and excitemen