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        Although scientists, engineers,      customers on the possible            questions we want to ask them. A
        and business mavens agree we         applications of their innovative     business working on a practical
        might have finally entered the       technology. Machine learning         machine learning application needs
        golden age of artificial intelligence   engineers face the opposite.      to invest time, resources, and take
        when planning a machine learning     Entrepreneurs, designers, and        substantial risks.
        project you have to be ready to      managers overestimate the present
        face much more obstacles than you    capabilities of machine learning.    A typical artificial neural network
        think.                               They expect the algorithms to        has millions of parameters; some
                                             learn quickly and deliver precise    can have hundreds of millions. A
        Deep learning algorithms like        predictions to complex queries.      training set usually consists of tens
        AlphaGo are breaking one             They expect wizardry.                of thousands of records. While a
        frontier after another, proving that                                      network is capable of remembering
        machines can already be able to      Because of the hype and media        the training set and giving answers
        play complex games “thinking         buzz about the near coming of        with 100 percent accuracy, it may
        out” their moves. Automation has     general superintelligence, people    prove completely useless when
        more applications than ever before:   started to perceive AI as a magic   given new data. The mechanism is
        from email classification, music,    wand that will quickly solve all     called overfitting (or overtraining)
        and video suggestions, through       problems - be it automatic face      and is just one of limits to current
        image recognition, predictive        recognition or assessing the         deep learning algorithms.
        maintenance in factories, to         financial risk of a loan in less than
        automatic disease detection,         a second. It’s not that easy. Not at   The black box problem
        driverless cars, and independent     all.
        humanoid robots.                                                          The early stages of machine
                                             In fact, commercial use of machine   learning belonged to relatively
        Understand the limits of             learning, especially deep learning   simple, shallow methods. For
        contemporary machine                 methods, is relatively new. They     example, a decision tree algorithm
        learning technology                  require vast sets of properly        acted strictly according to the
                                             organized and prepared data to       rules its supervisors taught
        Many companies face the              provide accurate answers to the      it: “if something is oval and
        challenge of educating                                                    green, there’s a probability P
                                                                                  it’s a cucumber.” These models
                                                                                  weren’t very good at identifying a
                                                                                  cucumber in a picture, but at least
                                                                                  everyone knew how they work.

                                                                                  Deep Learning algorithms are
                                                                                  different. They build a hierarchical
                                                                                  representation of data - layers that
                                                                                    allow them to create their own
                                                                                  understanding. After analyzing
                                                                                  large sets of data, neural networks
                                                                                  can learn how to recognize




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