The document provides an overview of breakthrough developments in deep learning from 2017 and 2018, highlighting key technologies like BERT for natural language processing, Tesla's autopilot advancements, and techniques in data augmentation such as AutoAugment. It also discusses innovations in training deep networks, GANs for image synthesis, and various frameworks for speeding up training processes. It emphasizes that these advancements represent exciting developments rather than traditional state-of-the-art benchmarks.