The document provides a historical view and trends of deep learning. It discusses that deep learning models have evolved in several waves since the 1940s, with key developments including the backpropagation algorithm in 1986 and deep belief networks with pretraining in 2006. Current trends include growing datasets, increasing numbers of neurons and connections per neuron, and higher accuracy on tasks involving vision, NLP and games. Research trends focus on generative models, domain alignment, meta-learning, using graphs as inputs, and program induction.