Introduction to Unity ML-Agents: Understand the Interplay of Neural Networks and Simulation Space Using the Unity ML-Agents Package

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D. EngelbrechtIntroduction to Unity ML-Agentshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8998-3_2

2. History of AI and Where We Are Today

Dylan Engelbrecht¹  

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In this chapter, we’ll explore the history of artificial intelligence and how it evolved into what it is today. We’ll begin our story in the United Kingdom shortly after the Second World War.

The People Who Shaped Artificial Intelligence

Throughout recent history, incredible computer scientists and mathematicians have been at the forefront of AI research – from building machines with vacuum tubes capable of behaving similarly to neural networks in modern AI to founding key research ...