AI/ML Concepts, Real-World Applications, and Challenges

This chapter will introduce basic concepts that will be explored in more detail throughout the rest of the book. We understand that readers of this book may be starting from different stages in their artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) journey, whereby some readers may already be advanced practitioners who are familiar with running AI/ML workloads while others may be newer to AI/ML in general. For this reason, we will briefly describe important fundamental concepts as required throughout the book to ensure that all readers have a common baseline upon which to build their understanding of the topics we discuss. Readers who are newer to AI/ML will benefit from learning the important underlying concepts rather than diving straight into the deep end of each topic without a baseline context, and advanced practitioners should find them to be useful knowledge refreshers.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the...