Applications of deep learning

Some popular applications that were made possible using DL are as follows:

  • Near-human-level image classification
  • Near-human-level speech recognition
  • Machine translation
  • Autonomous cars
  • Siri, Google Voice, and Alexa have become more accurate in recent years
  • A Japanese farmer sorting cucumbers
  • Lung cancer detection
  • Language translation beating human-level accuracy 

The following screenshot shows a short example of summarization, where the computer takes a large paragraph of text and summarizes it in a few lines:

Summary of a sample paragraph generated by computer

In the following image, a computer has been given a plain image without being told what it shows and, using object detection and some help from a dictionary, you get back an image caption stating two young girls are playing with lego toy. Isn't it brilliant?

 
Object detection and image captioning (Image source: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/cvpr2015.pdf)