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AI Crash Course

By : Hadelin de Ponteves
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Book Image

AI Crash Course

5 (2)
By: Hadelin de Ponteves

Overview of this book

Welcome to the Robot World … and start building intelligent software now! Through his best-selling video courses, Hadelin de Ponteves has taught hundreds of thousands of people to write AI software. Now, for the first time, his hands-on, energetic approach is available as a book. Starting with the basics before easing you into more complicated formulas and notation, AI Crash Course gives you everything you need to build AI systems with reinforcement learning and deep learning. Five full working projects put the ideas into action, showing step-by-step how to build intelligent software using the best and easiest tools for AI programming, including Python, TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch. AI Crash Course teaches everyone to build an AI to work in their applications. Once you've read this book, you're only limited by your imagination.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

What is Reinforcement Learning?

When people refer to AI today, some of them think of Machine Learning, while others think of Reinforcement Learning. I fall into the second category. I always saw Machine Learning as statistical models that have the ability to learn some correlations, from which they make predictions without being explicitly programmed.

While this is, in some way, a form of AI, Machine Learning does not include the process of taking actions and interacting with an environment like we humans do. Indeed, as intelligent human beings, what we constantly keep doing is the following:

  1. We observe some input, whether it's what we see with our eyes, what we hear with our ears, or what we remember in our memory.
  2. These inputs are then processed in our brain.
  3. Eventually, we make decisions and take actions.

This process of interacting with an environment is what we are trying to reproduce in terms of Artificial Intelligence...