Deep Learning with Swift for TensorFlow: Differentiable Programming with Swift

© Rahul Bhalley 2021

R. BhalleyDeep Learning with Swift for TensorFlowhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6330-3_1

1. Machine Learning Basics

Rahul Bhalley¹  

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Ludhiana, India

 

We’re unquestionably in the business of forging the gods.¹

—Pamela McCorduck

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most fascinating fields of computer science in addition to quantum computing (Preskill, 2018) and blockchain (Nakamoto, 2008). Hype since the mid-2000s in the industrial community has led to large amounts of investments for AI startups. Globally leading technology companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft, just to name a few, are quickly acquiring talented AI startups from all over the world to accelerate AI research and, ...