 What we currently use for machine learning is neural networks, deep neural networks, hence the name deep learning. For those of you who don't understand what deep is, just a neural network that has many layers, that's what the depth is in there. Neural networks were invented in the 50s and the 60s. I have a bit of a strange position here, because as a disciple of Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert at the Media Lab,