193. How Deep Neural Networks Work
A conceptual overview of neural networks, the workhorse of artificial intelligence
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Neural networks are at the core of what we are calling Artificial Intelligence today. They can seem impenetrable, even mystical, if you are trying to understand them for the first time, but they don't have to.
Even if you are completely new to neural networks, this series of lectures will get you comfortable with the concepts and math behind them.
Course Curriculum
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PreviewHow neural networks work
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PreviewWhat neural networks can learn and how they learn it
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PreviewHow backpropagation works
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PreviewHow convolutional neural networks (CNNs) work
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PreviewHow recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and long-short-term memory (LSTM) work
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PreviewDeep learning demystified
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PreviewGetting closer to human intelligence through robotics
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PreviewHow CNNs work, in depth
Your Instructor
I love solving puzzles and building things. Machine learning lets me do both. I got started by studying robotics and human rehabilitation at MIT (MS '99, PhD '02), moved on to machine vision and machine learning at Sandia National Laboratories, then to predictive modeling of agriculture DuPont Pioneer, and cloud data science at Microsoft. At Facebook I worked to get internet and electrical power to those in the world who don't have it, using deep learning and satellite imagery and to do a better job identifying topics reliably in unstructured text. Now at iRobot I work to help robots get better and better at doing their jobs. In my spare time I like to rock climb, write robot learning algorithms, and go on walks with my wife and our dog, Reign of Terror.