As a developer, you have surely gained an interest in machine learning from looking at all the incredibly amazing applications that you see on your regular devices every day—automatic speech translation, picture style transfer, the ability to generate new pictures from sample ones, and so on. Brace yourself... we are heading directly into the technology that has made all these things possible.
Linear and logistic models, such as the ones we've observed, have certain limitations in terms of the complexity of the training dataset they train a model on, even when they are the basis of very articulated and efficient solutions.
How complex does a model have to be to capture the style of writing of an author, the concept of an image of a cat versus an image of a dog, or the classification of a plant based on visual elements? These things require the summation...