Some popular applications that were made possible using DL are as follows:
- Near-human-level image classification
- Near-human-level speech recognition
- Machine translation
- Autonomous cars
- Siri, Google Voice, and Alexa have become more accurate in recent years
- A Japanese farmer sorting cucumbers
- Lung cancer detection
- Language translation beating human-level accuracy
The following screenshot shows a short example of summarization, where the computer takes a large paragraph of text and summarizes it in a few lines:
Summary of a sample paragraph generated by computer
In the following image, a computer has been given a plain image without being told what it shows and, using object detection and some help from a dictionary, you get back an image caption stating two young girls are playing with lego toy. Isn't it brilliant?
Object detection and image captioning (Image source: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/cvpr2015.pdf)