Chapter 2: Automated Machine Learning, Algorithms, and Techniques

"Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make."

– Nick Bostrom

"The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation."

– Jeff Hawkins

"By far, the greatest danger of artificial intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."

– Eliezer Yudkowsky

Automating the automation sounds like one of those wonderful Zen meta ideas, but learning to learn is not without its challenges. In the last chapter, we covered the Machine Learning (ML) development life cycle, and defined automated ML, with a brief overview of how it works.

In this chapter, we will explore under-the-hood technologies, techniques, and tools used to make automated ML possible. Here, you will see how AutoML actually works, the algorithms and techniques of automated feature engineering, automated model and hyperparameter...