Deep Learning: Teaching Computers To Tell Things Apart

Deep Learning: Teaching Computers To Tell Things Apart Enlarge this image toggle caption iStockphoto iStockphoto WhatsApp may be Facebook's latest prize, but it's not the company's most ambitious investment. Sponsor Message Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at New York University, is developing deep learning programs. Deep learning "really doesn't look like a computer program," says Gary Marcus a psychologist and AI expert at New York University who doesn't work with LeCun. "Google, I think, would like to build search engines that understand the English language, and deep learning's not really powerful enough to do that," he says.