Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

How DL relates to ML and AI

The current level of public attention and debate warrants a brief outline of how DL relates to AI and ML (see references on GitHub for more detail: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Machine-Learning-for-Algorithmic-Trading).

AI has a long history, going back at least to the 1950s as an academic field and much longer as a subject of human inquiry, but has experienced several waves of ebbing and flowing enthusiasm since. ML is an important subfield that also has a long history in related disciplines, such as statistics, and became prominent in the 1980s. As discussed in the previous section, DL is a form of representation learning, itself a subfield of ML.

The initial goal of AI was to achieve General ...