The document discusses recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. It provides an overview of how RNNs work using feedback loops to process sequential data. However, RNNs struggle with long-term dependencies. LSTMs were designed to overcome this by using forget gates to determine what information to keep or forget from the cell state. The document then discusses applications of RNNs and LSTMs like machine translation, speech recognition, and using an LSTM autoencoder for ECG classification. It presents a case study on ECG-NET, an LSTM autoencoder for detecting anomalous ECG signals.