Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

Book excerpt: This book is designed as an easy insight into the fundamentals of artificial intelligence. You may be a student, business executive or just an everyday person looking to understand this important subject area. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most exciting, significant, planet-changing development in human history. It is the natural progression of the digital revolution, designed as a thought engine that can exceed human brain limitations, it now shapes and controls many aspects of our daily lives. What were the origins of AI? How did the technology evolve? What are artificial neural networks and tensors and why are they important to the step-change in AI? What are the regulatory and existential challenges that this technology poses? ALSO featuring an alphabetical section at the back of the book to help you translate the main AI terminology into plain, non-technical English.