Artificial Intelligence for Business, 2nd Edition

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Putting AI to Work on Big Data

In this chapter:

• Getting up to speed on big data

• Differentiating machine learning from data mining

• Understanding the role of data science

• Distinguishing machine learning from data science

As mentioned in Chapter 2, the explosive growth of data and its availability have driven the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Without massive amounts of data, digital personal assistants such as Alexa and Siri wouldn’t be able to understand what people are saying or develop reasonable responses. The more information you feed an artificial neural network, the faster it learns and the more capable it becomes.

Prior ...