Machine Learning and AI for Absolute Beginners

 

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PREFACE

 

Machines have come a long way since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. They continue to fill factory floors and manufacturing plants, but their capabilities extend beyond manual activities to cognitive tasks that, until recently, only humans were capable of performing. Judging song contests, driving automobiles, and detecting fraudulent transactions are three examples of the complex tasks machines are now capable of simulating.

But these remarkable feats trigger fear among some observers. Part of their fear nestles on the neck of survivalist insecurities and provokes the deep-seated question of what if? What if intelligent machines turn on us in a struggle of the fittest? What if intelligent machines produce offspring ...