January 2025
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 49m
English
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CHAPTER 1Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, or AI, as I’ll refer to it throughout the rest of this book, is, in the broadest terms, intelligence shown by computers. It’s a field of computer science that develops processes and software enabling machines to interact with their environment and use learning and intelligence to achieve goals such as understanding, seeing, and communicating. Some better-known uses of AI that you may have encountered include advanced web search engines, recommendation systems, chatbots, self-driving vehicles, and computers playing humans in strategy games. Who among you reading this remembers, or has heard of, the IBM computer Deep Blue defeating then-reigning chess champion Garry Kasparov in the late 90s?
AI was officially founded at Dartmouth in 1956, which is where the term “artificial intelligence” was first recorded. However, the origins of AI can be traced back even further, to philosophical thinkers who described how the human brain works, and, of course, to the invention of modern-day computing. Science fiction has played a significant role in representing humanistic forms of AI, from HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Terminator movies to Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S. in the Avengers movies.
Over time, AI has experienced ...
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