Deep Learning with Azure: Building and Deploying Artificial Intelligence Solutions on the Microsoft AI Platform

© Mathew Salvaris, Danielle Dean, Wee Hyong Tok 2018

Mathew Salvaris, Danielle Dean and Wee Hyong TokDeep Learning with Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3679-6_1

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Mathew Salvaris¹ , Danielle Dean² and Wee Hyong Tok³

(1)

London, UK

(2)

Westford, Massachusetts, USA

(3)

Redmond, Washington, USA

 

Intelligence can be defined in many ways, from the ability to learn to deal with new situations to the ability to make the right decisions according to some criterion, for example (Bengio, 2010). Standard computers and even basic calculators can be thought to be intelligent in some ways, as they can compute an outcome based on human-programed rules. Computers are extremely useful for mundane operations such as arithmetic ...