deep learning

noun

computing

: a form of machine learning in which the computer network rapidly teaches itself to understand a concept without human intervention by performing a large number of iterative calculations on an extremely large dataset

Deep learning involves feeding machines lots of data so the AI can learn patterns itself without requiring humans to program knowledge into the machine.

—Mike Cherney

In deep learning, multiple neural networks are "stacked" on top of each other, or layered, in order to create models that are even better at prediction because each new layer learns from the ones before it.

—Derrick Harris

—sometimes used before another noun

The purpose of many deep learning systems is to minimize the amount of time spent feeding or quizzing a piece of software …

—Erik Sofge

Examples of deep learning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Cupertino illuminati view deep learning and ML as only the latest in a steady flow of groundbreaking technologies. —Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024

The rise of machine and deep learning in the 2010s introduced cognitive intelligence. —Dean Debiase, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

As Google and others embraced deep learning, Microsoft’s most promising development was a chatbot called Cortana. —Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024

Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal and head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, has won multiple awards for his work in deep learning, a subset of AI that attempts to mimic the activity in the human brain to learn how to recognize complex patterns in data. —Lucy Handley, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above