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Artificial Intelligence with Python

You're reading from   Artificial Intelligence with Python A Comprehensive Guide to Building Intelligent Apps for Python Beginners and Developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464392
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prateek Joshi Prateek Joshi
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence FREE CHAPTER 2. Classification and Regression Using Supervised Learning 3. Predictive Analytics with Ensemble Learning 4. Detecting Patterns with Unsupervised Learning 5. Building Recommender Systems 6. Logic Programming 7. Heuristic Search Techniques 8. Genetic Algorithms 9. Building Games With Artificial Intelligence 10. Natural Language Processing 11. Probabilistic Reasoning for Sequential Data 12. Building A Speech Recognizer 13. Object Detection and Tracking 14. Artificial Neural Networks 15. Reinforcement Learning 16. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks

Understanding the premise

The concept of learning is fundamental to Artificial Intelligence. We want the machines to understand the process of learning so that they can do it on their own. Humans learn by observing and interacting with their surroundings. When you go to a new place, you quickly scan and see what's happening around you. Nobody is teaching you what to do here. You are observing and interacting with the environment around you. By building this connection with the environment, we tend to gather a lot of information about what's causing different things. We learn about cause and effect, what actions lead to what results, and what we need to do in order to achieve something.

We use this premise everywhere in our lives. We gather all this knowledge about our surroundings and, in turn, learn how we respond to that. Let's consider another example of an orator. Whenever good orators are giving speeches in public, they are aware of how the crowd is reacting to what...

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