I’ll tell you why Deep Learning is so popular and in demand

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So you’re browsing through your News Feed and once again there’s an article on Deep Learning. You keep seeing it everywhere along with all of the usual attached buzzwords. Recent grads being hired by big tech companies for well into the six-figures, working on the next big thing. There’s all kinds of new software and apps being “powered by AI”.

Deep Learning has become the main driver of many new applications and it’s time to really look at why this is the case. With so many other options that we’ve been using for so long, why Deep Learning?

Deep Learning is popular right now because it’s easy and it works.

Let me explain more!

Traditional Machine Learning approaches worked like the top half of the picture above. You would have to design a feature extraction algorithm which generally involved a lot of heavy mathematics (complex design), wasn’t very efficient, and didn’t perform too well at all (accuracy level just wasn’t suitable for real-world applications). After doing all of that you would also have to design a whole classification model to classify your input given the extracted features.