Welcome to the applied AI Deep Learning team and to our first project - Building a Common Deep Learning Environment! We're excited about the projects we've assembled in this book.  The foundation of a common working environment will help us work together and learn very cool and powerful Deep Learning technologies like computer vision and natural language processing that you will be able to use in your professional career as a data scientist.

The following topics will be covered in the chapter:

• Components in building a common Deep Learning environment
• Setting up a local Deep Learning environment
• Setting up a Deep Learning environment in the cloud
• Using the cloud for deployment of Deep Learning applications
• Automating this process to reduce errors and get started quickly