In the past 10 years there have also been major advances in ML. In particular, deep learning has emerged and has revolutionized how computers can process language and image data. The term deep learning describes a family of neural network models with multiple layers of units in the network. Neural networks have been around since the 1940s, but they work best with large, complex data sets and take a great deal of computing resources to train. So the emergence of deep learning is connected with growth in big data and computing power.
