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Artificial Intelligence By Example - Second Edition

By : Denis Rothman
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Artificial Intelligence By Example - Second Edition

By: Denis Rothman

Overview of this book

AI has the potential to replicate humans in every field. Artificial Intelligence By Example, Second Edition serves as a starting point for you to understand how AI is built, with the help of intriguing and exciting examples. This book will make you an adaptive thinker and help you apply concepts to real-world scenarios. Using some of the most interesting AI examples, right from computer programs such as a simple chess engine to cognitive chatbots, you will learn how to tackle the machine you are competing with. You will study some of the most advanced machine learning models, understand how to apply AI to blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT), and develop emotional quotient in chatbots using neural networks such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This edition also has new examples for hybrid neural networks, combining reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning (DL), chained algorithms, combining unsupervised learning with decision trees, random forests, combining DL and genetic algorithms, conversational user interfaces (CUI) for chatbots, neuromorphic computing, and quantum computing. By the end of this book, you will understand the fundamentals of AI and have worked through a number of examples that will help you develop your AI solutions.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Machine Intelligence – Evaluation Functions and Numerical Convergence

Two issues appear when a reward matrix (R)-driven MDP produces results. These issues can be summed up in two principles.

Principle 1: AI algorithms often surpass humans in classification, prediction, and decision-making areas.

The key executive function of human intelligence, decision-making, relies on the ability to evaluate a situation. No decision can be made without measuring the pros and cons and factoring the parameters.

Humanity takes great pride in its ability to evaluate. However, in many cases, a machine can do better. Chess represents our pride in our thinking ability. A chessboard is often present in movies to symbolize human intelligence.

Today, not a single chess player can beat the best chess engines. One of the extraordinary core capabilities of a chess engine is the evaluation function; it takes many parameters into account more precisely than humans.

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