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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

by David Dindi, Patrick D. Smith
October 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
362 pages
9h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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The beginnings of AI –1950–1974

Since some of the earliest mathematicians and thinkers, AI has been a long sought after concept. The ancient Greeks developed myths of the automata, a form of robot that would complete tasks for the Gods that they considered menial, and throughout early history thinkers pondered what it meant to human, and if the notion of human intelligence could be replicated. While it's impossible to pinpoint an exact beginning for AI as a field of research, its development parallels the early advances of computer science. One could argue that computer science as a field developed out of this early desire to create self-thinking machines.

During the second world war, British mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing developed ...

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