this covers high-level definitions of fundamental concepts timeline of the development of machine learning key factors behind deep learning' rising popularity and future potential in the past few yearsartificial intelligence (aihas been subject of intense media hype machine learningdeep learningand ai come up in countless articlesoften outside of technology-minded publications we're promised future of intelligent chatbotsself-driving carsand virtual assistants-- future sometimes painted in grim light and other times as utopianwhere human jobs will be scarce and most economic activity will be handled by robots or ai agents for future or current practitioner of machine learningit' important to be able to recognize the signal in the noise so that you can tell world-changing developments from overhyped press releases our future is at stakeand it' future in which you have an active role to playafter reading this bookyou'll be one of those who develop the ai agents so let' tackle these questionswhat has deep learning achieved so farhow significant is itwhere are we headed nextshould you believe the hypethis provides essential context around artificial intelligencemachine learningand deep learning licensed to