The document provides an overview of deep learning, including its history from the perceptron to the revival with backpropagation in the 1980s. It describes the explosion of deep learning with seminal papers in 2006, availability of large labeled datasets, powerful computing hardware, and open source software. Popular deep learning models like convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks are explained. Applications of deep learning like image segmentation, self-driving cars, asset management, and recommendation engines are also mentioned.