Five classic books to understand AI properly
The textbooks and essays that shaped how researchers think about artificial intelligence, from search and logic to deep learning and reinforcement learning.
AI Desk3 min read
Tag
#Deep Learning
Every The Latent Daily story, tool, model and resource tagged “Deep Learning”.
7 items
Machine LearningResearch
Batch normalization explained: the trick that made deep networks easier to train
The 2015 batch normalization paper let networks train faster and deeper by normalizing layer inputs. How it works, why it helps, and what transformers use instead.
AI Desk4 min read
Computer VisionResearch
ResNet explained: the skip connection that let networks go 100+ layers deep
The 2015 ResNet paper solved the degradation problem with residual connections and won ImageNet. How skip connections work and why every transformer uses them.
AI Desk3 min read
The "godfathers of deep learning": Hinton, LeCun and Bengio
Who Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio are, the ideas that won them the 2018 Turing Award, and why the three now disagree sharply about the risks of AI.
AI Desk3 min read
The best YouTube channels and video courses to learn AI
From 3Blue1Brown's visual neural network series to Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero and university lectures: the best free videos for learning AI, by level.
AI Desk3 min read