Preface
Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly thought of as the capability of a machine or computer system to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence. Whatever your mental image of AI is—HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, or Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation—it probably represents only one or two facets of the growing capabilities in the field.
Until recently, most AI technologies revolved around machine learning—essentially, an automation of applied statistics. If you’ve forgotten your college statistics classes, it’s basically using large data samples to predict future data (for example, looking at recent home prices to predict future home prices). In the ...
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