4 STARTING AI: HOW TO BUILD A MACHINE LEARNING TOOLBOX

Our objective in this chapter is to build an understanding of the theory that underpins ML and AI. In doing so, it will give us an appreciation of the education, experience and skill someone developing AI and ML systems needs to have developed.

This chapter is in no way a replacement for education at higher-level institutions and industry. If you are part of an AI or ML team, it is really important to be able to find those people who can work with the more complicated and theoretical aspects of AI. AI is a broad subject and not everyone needs to be applied mathematicians, but it is important have an appreciation that these projects can be complicated and time-consuming. So, our introduction ...

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