February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 44m
English
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1Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. It underpins speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and machine vision. AI is behind the sophisticated spam filters that keep your inbox (mostly) free of junk mail. It flags unusual usage patterns on your credit card and assesses your credit score. It suggests tags for people in photos you post to Facebook. It offers intelligent suggestions when you use the search bar. AI is all around us, yet we have only scratched the surface of AI's future potential.
Like a femme fatale in a classic movie, AI seems simultaneously sexy and scary. While artificial intelligence may help us to unlock cures for diseases, discover new wonder materials, and predict the future, some people worry that it threatens human life as we know it, either economically or existentially.
What Is It and Why Is It Important?
Artificial intelligence is the umbrella term that describes the effort to mimic human skills and replicate human intelligence with machines. Various approaches have been used to build artificial intelligence over the years. In the 1980s and 1990s, “knowledge systems” were all the rage. Today, most modern AI uses a technique known as machine learning. Machines learn from examples in the form of training data. Most machine learning systems are built with artificial neural networks (ANN), also known more simply as neural networks.
Electricity, Digital Computers, and Artificial Intelligence
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