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Machine Learning and AI for Absolute Beginners
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Machine Learning and AI for Absolute Beginners

by Oliver Theobald
August 2025
Beginner
236 pages
7h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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The idea that artificial neural networks can be used to solve a wider spectrum of learning tasks than other techniques has led some pundits to hail ANN as the ultimate machine learning algorithm. While there is a strong case for this argument, this isn’t to say that ANN fits the bill as a silver bullet algorithm. In certain cases, neural networks fall short, and decision trees are held up as a popular counterargument.

The huge amount of input data and computational resources required to train a neural network is the first downside of any attempt to solve all machine learning problems using this technique. Neural network-based applications like Google's image recognition engine rely on millions of tagged examples ...

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