You're reading from Artificial Intelligence with Python Your complete guide to building intelligent apps using Python 3.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839219535

Length 618 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

TensorFlow

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (2):

Prateek Joshi

Alberto Artasanchez

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

2. Fundamental Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence FREE CHAPTER

3. Machine Learning Pipelines

4. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering

5. Classification and Regression Using Supervised Learning

6. Predictive Analytics with Ensemble Learning

7. Detecting Patterns with Unsupervised Learning

8. Building Recommender Systems

9. Logic Programming

10. Heuristic Search Techniques

11. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming

12. Artificial Intelligence on the Cloud

13. Building Games with Artificial Intelligence

14. Building a Speech Recognizer

15. Natural Language Processing

16. Chatbots

17. Sequential Data and Time Series Analysis

18. Image Recognition

19. Neural Networks

20. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks

21. Recurrent Neural Networks and Other Deep Learning Models

22. Creating Intelligent Agents with Reinforcement Learning

23. Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Understanding the building blocks of logic programming

In programming object-oriented or imperative paradigms, a variable always needs to be defined. In logic programming, things work a bit differently. An uninstantiated argument can be passed to a function and the interpreter will instantiate these variables by looking at the facts defined by the user. This is a powerful way of approaching the variable matching problem. The process of matching variables with different items is called unification. This is one of the ways logic programming is different. Relations can also be specified in logic programming. Relations are defined by means of clauses called facts and rules.

Facts are just statements that are truths about the program and the data. The syntax is straightforward. For example, Donald is Allan's son is a fact, whereas Who is Allan's son? is not be a fact. Every logic program needs facts so that it can achieve the given goal based on them.

Rules are...