Introduction to Deep Learning Business Applications for Developers: From Conversational Bots in Customer Service to Medical Image Processing

©  Armando Vieira, Bernardete Ribeiro 2018

Armando Vieira and Bernardete RibeiroIntroduction to Deep Learning Business Applications for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3453-2_1

1. Introduction

Armando Vieira¹  and Bernardete Ribeiro²

(1)

Linköping, Sweden

(2)

Coimbra, Portugal

 

This chapter will describe what the book is about, the book’s goals and audience, why artificial intelligence (AI) is important, and how the topic will be tackled.

Teaching computers to learn from experience and make sense of the world is the goal of artificial intelligence. Although people do not understand fully how the brain is capable of this remarkable feat, it is generally accepted that AI should rely on weakly supervised generation of hierarchical abstract concepts ...