Further reading

An excellent introduction to artificial intelligence can be found in the first few chapters of Russel S., Norvig P., Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Pearson. In the second volume, there's also a very extensive discussion on statistical learning in many different contexts. A complete book on deep learning is Goodfellow I., Bengio Y., Courville A., Deep Learning, The MIT Press. If you would like to learn more about how the neocortex works, a simple but stunning introduction is present in Kurzweil R., How to Create a Mind, Duckworth Overlook. A comprehensive introduction to the Python programming language can be found in Lutz M., Learning Python, O'Reilly.