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Hello and welcome! This book will introduce you to deep learning via PyTorch, an open source library released by Facebook in 2017. Unless you’ve had your head stuck in the ground in a very good impression of an ostrich the past few years, you can’t have helped but notice that neural networks are everywhere these days. They’ve gone from being the really cool bit of computer science that people learn about and then do nothing with to being carried around with us in our phones every day to improve our pictures or listen to our voice commands.
Our email software reads our email and produces context-sensitive replies, our speakers listen out for us, cars drive by themselves, and the computer has finally bested humans at Go. We’re also seeing the technology being used for more nefarious ends in authoritarian countries, where neural network–backed sentinels can pick faces out of crowds and make a decision on whether they should be apprehended.