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Artificial Intelligence All-in-One For Dummies
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Artificial Intelligence All-in-One For Dummies

by Chris Minnick, John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron, Stephanie Diamond, Pam Baker, Daniel Stanton, Shiv Singh, Paul Mladjenovic, Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, Jeffrey Allan
July 2025
Beginner
752 pages
19h
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Defining Data’s Role in AI

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Seeing data as a universal resource

Bullet Obtaining and manipulating data

Bullet Looking for mistruths in data

Bullet Defining data-acquisitions limits

Bullet Considering data security

There is nothing unique about data. Every interesting application ever written for a computer has data associated with it. Data comes in many forms — some organized, some not. What has changed is the amount of data. Some people find it almost terrifying that access to so much data that details nearly every aspect of their lives is a reality — sometimes to a level that even the terrified people don’t realize. In addition, the use of advanced hardware and improvements in algorithms make data now the universal resource for AI.

To work with data, you must first obtain it. Today, data is collected manually, as done in the past, and also automatically, using new methods. However, it’s not a matter of just one or two data collection techniques: Collection methods take place on a ...

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