Chapter 1 Introduction

DOI: 10.1201/9781003240167-1

Artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes also called as machine intelligence, is a branch of computer science, which deals with the study and development of machines that are intelligent like human beings. AI is a buzzword and some popular lines about AI highlight its importance, such as, ‘AI is the future’ and ‘AI is the new electricity’ etc. AI has several components/sub-fields, like knowledge representation, reasoning/inferencing and pattern recognition etc., and machine learning is one of them and one of the important sub-field.

Machine learning is one of the very interesting fields where machine learn to perform some task from examples, i.e., from data. This is unlike traditional programming ...

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