Fundamentals Of Artificial Intelligence Research

This volume contains 6 invited lectures and 13 submitted contributions to the scientific programme of the international workshop Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Research, FAIR '91, held at Smolenice Castle, Czechoslovakia, September 8-12, 1991, under the sponsorship of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, ECCAI. FAIR'91, the first of an intended series of international workshops, addresses issues which belong to the theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence considered as a discipline focused on concise theoretical description of some aspects of intelligence by toolsand methods adopted from mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science. The intended goal of the FAIR workshops is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and results in a domain where theoretical models play an essential role. It is felt that such theoretical studies, their development and their relations to AI experiments and applications have to be promoted in the AI research community.

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence introduces the foundations of present day AI and provides coverage to recent developments in AI such as Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Adversarial Search and Game Theory, Statistical Learning Theory, Automated Planning, Intelligent Agents, Information Retrieval, Natural Language & Speech Processing, and Machine Vision. The book features a wealth of examples and illustrations, and practical approaches along with the theoretical concepts. It covers all major areas of AI in the domain of recent developments. The book is intended primarily for students who major in computer science at undergraduate and graduate level but will also be of interest as a foundation to researchers in the area of AI.

What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial intelligence is a system that tends to simulate intelligent behaviors into computer-controlled machines or digital computers. Artificial Intelligence normally gives a machine the ability to carry out tasks usually associated with intelligent beings like us. Some of these tasks include translating languages, decision-making, visual perception, and speech recognition. In simple terms, artificial intelligence is the capability of any machine to mimic intelligent human behavior. Contrary to what many may think, Artificial intelligence is not a new field of study. In fact, it is older than most millennials reading this guide now. This may make you wonder when the concept of AI really started and from whence it came. As you will learn, machine learning is going to be a big deal in the world of technology. Those who would have started using it to unlock their data will greatly benefit from it even before people realize it exists. As a smart person, you should use this book to familiarize yourself with how machine learning works and then learn how to use it to your advantage. These days, AI is associated with the high-tech companies that dominate the field. Artificial intelligence first started as an academic discipline, but it has since sunken its tendrils into the business sector. Many AI researchers have abandoned academia altogether and flocked to companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) Amazon, openAI, and so on. The said companies are all working on different machine learning algorithms and are without a doubt at the forefront of AI research. Those with advanced degrees in AI, computer science, and maths rather join the engineering teams of these companies than stay in the academia. And since they are at the bleeding edge, it is worth listening to what their leaders have to say. Some have been quiet on the concerns about AI, and others like Amazon's Bezos have said that they aren't worried about potential AI threats. But, other visionaries like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and physicist Stephen Hawking have all voiced their opinions on the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence. In January 2015, Hawking, Musk, and several other AI experts signed an open letter on artificial intelligence research, calling for increased study on the potential effects on society. The twelve-page document is entitled "Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter". It calls for further research on new AI legislation, privacy, ethics research, and several other concerns. As described in the letter, the potential threats of artificial intelligence can fall into multiple dimensions. The good news is that the early stages of AI development that we find ourselves in are malleable. The future is ours to create, provided that proper time and care go into the non-engineering side of AI research and policy. Book Outline: Chapter 1 - Artificial Beings, a Brief History of the Human Psyche Chapter 2 - Top Six AI Myths Chapter 3 - Why AI is the New Business Degree Chapter 4 - Understanding Machine Learning Chapter 5 - Machine Learning Steps Chapter 6 - Robotics Chapter 7 - Natural Language Processing

The book covers the most essential and widely employed material in each area, particularly the material important for real-world applications. Our goal is not to cover every latest progress in the fields, nor to discuss every detail of various techniques that have been developed. New sections/subsections added in this edition are: Simulated Annealing (Section 3.7), Boltzmann Machines (Section 3.8) and Extended Fuzzy if-then Rules Tables (Sub-section 5.5.3). Also, numerous changes and typographical corrections have been made throughout the manuscript. The Preface to the first edition follows. General scope of the book Artificial intelligence (AI) as a field has undergone rapid growth in diversification and practicality. For the past few decades, the repertoire of AI techniques has evolved and expanded. Scores of newer fields have been added to the traditional symbolic AI. Symbolic AI covers areas such as knowledge-based systems, logical reasoning, symbolic machine learning, search techniques, and natural language processing. The newer fields include neural networks, genetic algorithms or evolutionary computing, fuzzy systems, rough set theory, and chaotic systems.

The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory and practice. Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models are used in predictive data analytics applications including price prediction, risk assessment, predicting customer behavior, and document classification. This introductory textbook offers a detailed and focused treatment of the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. Technical and mathematical material is augmented with explanatory worked examples, and case studies illustrate the application of these models in the broader business context. This second edition covers recent developments in machine learning, especially in a new chapter on deep learning, and two new chapters that go beyond predictive analytics to cover unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.

Artificial Intelligence presents a practical guide to AI, including agents, machine learning and problem-solving simple and complex domains.

With the reinvigoration of neural networks in the 2000s, deep learning has become an extremely active area of research, one that’s paving the way for modern machine learning. In this practical book, author Nikhil Buduma provides examples and clear explanations to guide you through major concepts of this complicated field. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are actively growing in-house deep-learning teams. For the rest of us, however, deep learning is still a pretty complex and difficult subject to grasp. If you’re familiar with Python, and have a background in calculus, along with a basic understanding of machine learning, this book will get you started. Examine the foundations of machine learning and neural networks Learn how to train feed-forward neural networks Use TensorFlow to implement your first neural network Manage problems that arise as you begin to make networks deeper Build neural networks that analyze complex images Perform effective dimensionality reduction using autoencoders Dive deep into sequence analysis to examine language Learn the fundamentals of reinforcement learning