In the previous chapter we saw that there are lots of different techniques we can use and combine to model aspects of intelligent behavior. On their own, however, they will not get us far. These techniques only have value in as much as they allow us to do something specific and clearly identifiable: transcribing speech to text, classifying a document, or recognizing objects in an image. To achieve these tasks, we typically need to combine techniques into capabilities.
AI capabilities represent a concrete thing we can do to better understand the world and affect change within it. They are analogous ...
