Preface
The year 2020 was a year of turmoil, conflicts, and division. The most significant event was no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic, which was, and still is, raging in more than 200 countries and affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. I spent a good part of the year working from home. There are many disadvantages of remote working; however, it does have at least one advantage: it saved me at least two hours a day traveling to and from work. This gave me more time to think about, to plan, and to propose this book.
I am absolutely fascinated with artificial intelligence, and I have read many artificial intelligence books. But most of the books are heavily focused on the mathematics of artificial intelligence, which makes them difficult to understand for people without mathematics or computer science backgrounds. I have always wanted to write a book that could make it easier to get into the artificial intelligence field for beginners—people from all different disciplines. Thanks to the countless researchers and developers around the world and their open source code, particularly Python-based open source code, it is much easier to use artificial intelligence now than 10 years ago. Through this book, you will find that you can do amazing things with just a few lines of code, and in some cases, you don't need to code at all.
I am a big fan of open source, and for a research field as controversial as artificial intelligence, it is better for everyone to work together. ...
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