Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence - NYTimes.com

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"The technology, called deep learning, has already been put to use in services like Apple’s Siri virtual personal assistant, which is based on Nuance Communications’ speech recognition service, and in Google’s Street View, which uses machine vision to identify specific addresses.
But what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks or just “neural nets” for their resemblance to the neural connections in the brain."

Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence - NYTimes.com