January 2023
Beginner to intermediate
270 pages
6h 1m
English
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What’s common to stock trading, vacuum cleaning, language recognition, creating movie trailers, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deal research, image recognition, data center energy consumption optimization, driving cars, and predicting hypoglycemic events in diabetes? Yes, you’ve probably guessed—they are all things that can and are being done with the help of artificial intelligence, or AI. AI has long been seen as the pinnacle of computing intelligence. It has taken many forms, some humanoid and some not. It spans popular culture, computer science, and fantasy fiction.
What Is AI?
The term AI was coined in the 1950s, largely based on the vision that computers could one day be as intelligent as humans. ...