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Intro; Contents; Preface; I: Intelligence Reimagined; Timeline; 1 The Rise of Machine Learning; Learning How to Drive; Learning How to Translate; Learning How to Listen; Learning How to Diagnose; Learning How to Make Money; Learning the Law; Learning How to Play Poker; Learning How to Play Go; Learning How to Become More Intelligent; The Shifting Job Market; Is Artificial Intelligence an Existential Threat?; Back to the Future; 2 The Rebirth of Artificial Intelligence; Child's Play?; Why Vision Is a Hard Problem; Expert Systems; Into the Lion's Den; 3 The Dawn of Neural Networks

Early PioneersLearning from Examples; SEXNET; Perceptrons Eclipsed; 4 Brain-style Computing; How the Brain Works; Early Pioneers; George Boole and Machine Learning; The Humpty Dumpty Project; What I learned at Woods Hole; The Missing Link; 5 Insights from the Visual System; Vision from the Bottom Up; Vision in the Cerebral Cortex; Synapse Plasticity; Shape from Shading; Visual Maps in the Cortex Are Hierarchically Organized; The Birth of Cognitive Neuroscience; II: Many Ways to Learn; Timeline; 6 The Cocktail Party Problem; Independent Component Analysis; Independent Components in the Brain

Beyond Independent Component Analysis7 The Hopfield Net and Boltzmann Machine; John Hopfield; A Network with Content-Addressable Memories; Finding the Global Energy Minimum; Boltzmann Machines; Hebbian Synaptic Plasticity; Learning Mirror Symmetries; Learning to Recognize Handwritten Zip Codes; Unsupervised Learning and Cortical Development; 8 Backpropagating Errors; Optimization; NETtalk; Neural Networks Reborn; Understanding Deep Learning; Limitations of Neural Networks; Passages; 9 Convolutional Learning; Steady Progress in Machine Learning; Convolutional Neural Networks

Deep Learning Meets the Visual HierarchyWorking Memory and Persistence of Activity; Generative Adversarial Networks; It's All about Scaling; 10 Reward Learning; Learning How to Play Backgammon; Reward Learning in Brains; Motivation and the Basal Ganglia; Learning How to Soar; Learning How to Sing; Other Forms of Learning; What Is Missing?; 11 Neural Information Processing Systems; Deep Learning at the Gaming Table; Preparing for the Future; III: Technological and Scientific Impact; Timeline; 12 The Future of Machine Learning; Life in the Twenty-First Century; The Future of Identity

The Rise of Social RobotsRubi; Facial Expressions Are a Window into Your Soul; The Science of Learning; Learning How to Learn; Brain Training; The AI Business; 13 The Age of Algorithms; Complex Systems; Cellular Automata; Is the Brain a Computer?; The Space of Algorithms; 14 Hello, Mr -- Chips; Hot Chips; Cool Chips; Neuromorphic Engineering; No More Moore's Law?; 15 Inside Information; Information Theory; Number Theory; Predictive Coding; The Global Brain; Operating Systems; It's Information, All the Way Down; Playing the Long Game; 16 Consciousness; Neural Correlates of Consciousness

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How deep learning-from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants-is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy. The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players and defeat a world champion at Go. In this book, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep learning went from being an arcane academic field to a disruptive technology in the information economy. Sejnowski played an important role in the founding of deep learning, as one of a small group of researchers in the 1980s who challenged the prevailing logic-and-symbol based version of AI. The new version of AI Sejnowski and others developed, which became deep learning, is fueled instead by data. Deep networks learn from data in the same way that babies experience the world, starting with fresh eyes and gradually acquiring the skills needed to navigate novel environments. Learning algorithms extract information from raw data; information can be used to create knowledge; knowledge underlies understanding; understanding leads to wisdom. Someday a driverless car will know the road better than you do and drive with more skill; a deep learning network will diagnose your illness; a personal cognitive assistant will augment your puny human brain. It took nature many millions of years to evolve human intelligence; AI is on a trajectory measured in decades. Sejnowski prepares us for a deep learning future.

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