Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

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The web before and after AI

If you have been a regular user of the World Wide Web since 2014, you'd agree to a visible rapid flurry of changes in websites. From solving ReCaptcha challenges of increasingly illegible writing to being automatically marked as human in the background, web development has been one of the forerunners in the display of the wealth of artificial intelligence that has been created over the last two decades.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, attributed as the inventor of the internet, has put forward his views on a Semantic Web:

"I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy, and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "intelligent agents" people have touted for ages will finally materialize."

From serving static pages with tons of information visible in them and links that permanently take you to related resources, the web is now an ever-changing portal of information generated dynamically. You might never see the same view of a web page again if you refresh it.

Let's understand some of the most important shifts in web development that have come about due to the rise of AI.