1.15 Intro to Data Science: Artificial Intelligence—at the Intersection of CS and Data Science

When a baby first opens its eyes, does it “see” its parent’s faces? Does it understand any notion of what a face is—or even what a simple shape is? Babies must “learn” the world around them. That’s what artificial intelligence (AI) is doing today. It’s looking at massive amounts of data and learning from it. AI is being used to play games, implement a wide range of computer-vision applications, enable self-driving cars, enable robots to learn to perform new tasks, diagnose medical conditions, translate speech to other languages in near real time, create chatbots that can respond to arbitrary questions using massive databases of knowledge, and much ...

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