AI and ML Overview

Welcome to the first chapter of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This chapter is an overview of the field and a brief introduction to the concepts and terminology. What you will learn, among other things, are for example:

• What is the relation between data science and machine learning and artificial intelligence?
• What kind of position exist in the industry?
• The brief history of AI
• When and why to use machine learning
• Most common types of machine learning algorithms
• What industries are being affected by the current AI/ML era
• What is parametric learning
• Crucial terminology

During this chapter, you will have an access to example code in which two fairly simple algorithms are being put into use:

• k-NN for classifying digits of images (MNIST dataset)
• Normal Equation for predicting simulated data points

During this chapter, we will avoid math as much as possible and focus on understanding the underlying intuition.