The first thing to do is install Python. We are going to use Python throughout this book for all our artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. There are two ways to install Python, either through the downloadable executable file provided from https://www.python.org/downloads/ or via Anaconda. Our approach will be the latter, that is, using Anaconda.
Setting up the artificial intelligence environment
Downloading and installing Anaconda
Now, let's go to the official Anaconda installation page (https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/index.html#regular-installation) and choose the appropriate option based on your operating system:
Follow the instructions as per the documentation. The installation takes some time.
Once it...