Preface

This second edition of Artificial Intelligence By Example will take you through the main aspects of present-day artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond!

This book contains many revisions and additions to the key aspects of AI described in the first edition:

• The theory of machine learning and deep learning including hybrid and ensemble algorithms.
• Mathematical representations of the main AI algorithms including natural language explanations making them easier to understand.
• Real-life case studies taking the reader inside the heart of e-commerce: manufacturing, services, warehouses, and delivery.
• Introducing AI solutions that combine IoT, convolutional neural networks (CNN), and Markov decision process (MDP).
• Many open source Python programs with a special focus on the new features of TensorFlow 2.x, TensorBoard, and Keras. Many modules are used, such as scikit-learn, pandas, and more.
• Cloud platforms: Google Colaboratory with its free VM, Google Translate, Google Dialogflow, IBM Q for quantum computing, and more.
• Use of the power of restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) and principal component analysis (PCA) to generate data to create a meaningful chatbot.
• Solutions to compensate for the emotional deficiencies of chatbots.
• Genetic algorithms, which run faster than classical algorithms in specific cases, and genetic algorithms used in a hybrid deep learning neural network.
• Neuromorphic computing, which reproduces our brain activity with models of selective spiking ensembles of neurons in models that reproduce our biological reactions.
• Quantum computing, which will take you deep into the tremendous calculation power of qubits and cognitive representation experiments.

This second edition of Artificial Intelligence By Example will take you to the cutting edge of AI and beyond with innovations that improve existing solutions. This book will make you a key asset not only as an AI specialist but a visionary. You will discover how to improve your AI skills as a consultant, developer, professor, a curious mind, or any person involved in artificial intelligence.