DEEP LEARNING The power of deep learning is in its ability to generalize patterns, in its most common application in image recognition, it takes an image and generalizes away the details of the image in a lossy way to arrive at the most abstract representation of that image such that when an image that possesses the same features as the one being generalized is presented to it, it recognizes it as the same image because it possesses the same features. This is very powerful and it is close to the way humans actually perform pattern recognition.
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