# Hello Deep Learning: Intro

DevFeed: [Hello Deep Learning: Intro](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hello-deep-learning-intro-36423.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/hello-deep-learning-intro/>)

Published: 2023-03-30T10:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Deep learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deep-learning.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>), [Generative AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/generative-ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [deep-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deep-learning.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>)

## AI overview

An introductory post to the Hello Deep Learning series explains the author's shift from dismissing deep learning to studying it more carefully. The project aims to teach how deep learning tooling works by building self-contained examples from first principles in plain C++, including a program that recognizes handwritten letters.

## Source excerpt

This page is part of the Hello Deep Learning series of blog posts. Also, feel free to skip this intro and head straight for chapter 1 where the machine learning begins! Deep learning and 'generative AI' have now truly arrived. If this is a good thing very much remains to be seen. What is certain however is that these technologies will have a huge impact. Up to late 2022, I had unwisely derided the advances of deep learning as overhyped nonsense from people doing fake demos.