And it is doing that in more and more realms, including natural-language processing, fraud detection, image recognition, and autonomous driving. In 2011, Marc Andreessen, ­general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote an influential article in The Wall Street Journal titled,“ Why Software Is Eating the World.' A decade later now, it's deep learning that's eating the world.ĭeep learning, which is to say artificial neural networks with many hidden layers, is regularly stunning us with solutions to real-world problems.