“The intro chapter of the Deep Learning book has a nice and thorough exploration of history and trends
Who recommended this book
“There were very few books to draw on during my PhD for DL. Now there’s Ian Goodfellow et al. Deep Learning book and other resources (e.g. many talks, CS231n, etc).
“Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject. It provides much-needed broad perspective and mathematical preliminaries for software engineers and students entering the field, and serves as a reference for authorities.
“25 books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:2) Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
“was so significantly impacted by Deep Learning that he hired co-author Yoshua Bengio to help shape the future of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence approach as a machine learning advisor.