Etymology

deep learning

Today it means: A form of machine learning based on the interpretation of the structure of data. Full definition →

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Coined by Israeli-American computer scientist Rina Dechter in 1986, in the context of backtracking in theorem proving. Later applied to multilayered (“deep”) neural networks by Geoffrey Hinton.

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