Preface

Virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri process our requests, Google's cars have started to read addresses, and Amazon's prices and Netflix's recommended videos are decided by AI. AI is one of the most exciting technologies, and is becoming increasingly significant in the modern world.

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners will teach you what AI is and how to design and build intelligent applications. This book will teach you to harness packages such as TensorFlow to create powerful AI systems. You will begin by reviewing the recent changes in AI and learning how artificial neural networks (ANNs) have enabled more intelligent AI. You'll explore feedforward, recurrent, convolutional, and generative neural networks (FFNNs, RNNs, CNNs, and GNNs), as well as reinforcement learning methods. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn how to implement these methods for a variety of tasks, such as generating text for chatbots, directing self-driving cars, and playing board and video games.

By the end of this book, you will be able to understand exactly what you need to consider when optimizing ANNs and how to deploy and maintain AI applications.