Deep Learning

What is deep learning?

Deep learning is a family of machine learning methods using neural networks with multiple layers.

✳ Beginner◷ 3 short lessons · learn at your paceTEXT-BASED LEARNING

Before you dive in: outcomes & prerequisites

No AI experience required. Start with the simple explanation.

A beginner learning path: understand the idea, follow an everyday example and check your understanding. Read the three lessons in order.

Start here · beginner

03 · Practise and check

Your turn

Draw three boxes: input, learned transformations, output. Fill them in for a handwritten digit classifier.

Answer check

Input: image pixels. Transformations: network calculations. Output: scores for digits. A high score can still be wrong, so evaluate on unseen handwriting.

Explain it to a friend

Give a second example from college, a hobby or a fictional workplace. State what information goes in, what comes out and one limitation. If you can explain those three things in plain language, you are ready to move on. Mark this lesson as read to save your progress when signed in.

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