This is a brief, popular lay piece about the increasingly widespread field of Deep Learning that demonstrates the statistical technique's beauty, mystery and the power it has over us all.

"As our technological and institutional creations have become more complex, our relationship to them has changed. Instead of being masters of our creations, we have learned to bargain with them, cajoling and guiding them in the general direction of our goals. We have built our own jungle, and it has a life of its own."