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AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development
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AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development

by Laurence Moroney
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
8h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Audiobook available
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Chapter 1. Introduction to AI and Machine Learning

You’ve likely picked this book up because you’re curious about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning, and all of the new technologies that promise the latest and greatest breakthroughs. Welcome! In this book, my goal is to explain a little about how AI and ML work, and a lot about how you can put them to work for you in your mobile apps using technologies such as TensorFlow Lite, ML Kit, and Core ML. We’ll start light, in this chapter, by establishing what we actually mean when we describe artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and more.

What Is Artificial Intelligence?

In my experience, artificial intelligence, or AI, has become one of the most fundamentally misunderstood technologies of all time. Perhaps the reason for this is in its name—artificial intelligence evokes the artificial creation of an intelligence. Perhaps it’s in the use of the term widely in science fiction and pop culture, where AI is generally used to describe a robot that looks and sounds like a human. I remember the character Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation as the epitome of an artificial intelligence, and his story led him in a quest to be human, because he was intelligent and self-aware but lacked emotions. Stories and characters like this have likely framed the discussion of artificial intelligence. Others, such as nefarious AIs in various movies and books, have led to a fear of what AI can be. ...

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