In our increasingly interconnected and data-rich world, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly expanding its reach into numerous aspects of life. Fueled by advancements in computer hardware and the abundance of digital information, deep learning, an AI technology inspired by the functioning of the brain, is being applied across diverse fields. These range from machine vision and natural-language processing to image recognition and even game playing. These varied applications depend on the ability of deep learning to identify and generalize patterns from massive datasets. Pictured is David Sell, a former student of Jonathan Fan from Stanford University, working on an experiment characterizing freeform surfaces, similar to those designed by the Fan group using deep learning.
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