Welcome to this Medium Article. Perhaps the hottest topic in the world right now is artificial intelligence. When people talk about this, they often talk about machine learning, and specifically, neural networks. What people have done in the last decades kind of abstracted the theory into a basis set of equations that emulate a network of artificial neurons. Then people have invented ways to train these systems based on data. So, rather than instructing a machine with rules like a piece of software, these neural networks are trained based on data. So, now we’re going to learn the very basics for, perception,** error-functions**, terminology that doesn’t make sense yet, but by the end of this medium article, you should be able to write and train your own neural network. That’s a ton of fun.

Introduction

Now we will learn how to use one of the most exciting tools and self-driving car development, deep neural networks. A deep neural network is just a term that describes a big multi-layer neural network. And a neural network is a machine learning algorithm that you can train using input like camera images or sensor readings and generate output like what’s steering angle the car should set or how fast it should go on the road. The idea is that the neural network learns from observing the world. You don’t have to teach it anything specific.

Deep learning_ is just another term for using deep neural networks to solve problems and it’s become really important for self-driving cars. But deep learning is relatively new. Until the last few years, computers simply weren’t fast enough to train deep neural networks effectively. Now, however, automotive manufacturers can apply deep learning techniques to drive cars in real time._

Because deep learning is so new, automotive engineers and researchers are still experimenting with just how far it can take us, but deep learning has already revolutionized segments of autonomous driving like computer vision and it has the potential to entirely change the way we develop self-driving cars. Some of the most important recent breakthroughs in the performance of self-driving cars, have come from machine learning.

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