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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

Part I – the background to blockchain technology

In this section, we will go through cryptocurrency mining with blockchains. Producing bitcoins with blockchains made the technology disruptive. The purpose of this section is to understand how the blockchain adventure started before moving on to subsequent uses of blockchain technology.

Blockchain technology will transform transactions in every field. Blockchains appeared in 2008. Nobody knows for sure who invented them. Each block contains an encrypted hash of its predecessor (previous block), the DateTime (timestamp) data, and the information regarding the transaction.

For more than 1,000 years, transactions have been mostly local book-keeping systems. For the past 100 years, even though the computer age changed the way information was managed, things did not change that much. Each company continued to keep its transactions to itself, only sharing some information through tedious systems.

Blockchain makes...