fastai Practical Deep Learning For Coders, Part 1, 2018

This is a great top down introduction to deep learning. Jeremey Howard is a great teacher. This is probably the best AI course on the interwebs. The fast.ai course websites blurb:

This 7-week course is designed for anyone with at least a year of coding experience, and some memory of high-school math. You will start with step one—learning how to get a GPU server online suitable for deep learning—and go all the way through to creating state of the art, highly practical, models for computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems.

2020: The course has been greatly updated since I did it, and the libray has evolved a lot. So its even more awesome now!