Deep learning has been immensely successful in recent years, spawning a lot of hope and generating a lot of hype, but no one has really understood why it works. The prevailing wisdom has been that deep learning is capable of discovering new representations of the data, rather than relying on hand-coded features like other learning … Continue reading Uncovering secrets of the “black box”: Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm,” shares new work examining the inner workings of deep learning models