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Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI): At a Glance Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a computer’s ability to do tasks commonly associated with human intelligence. The term is applied to the project of developing systems endowed with intellectual processes, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing Summary
Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic, philosophy, and mathematical biology and also to the new areas later named computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life. The son of a civil
A simple feedforward neural network
neural network Summary
Neural network, a computer program that operates in a manner inspired by the natural neural network in the brain. The objective of such artificial neural networks is to perform such cognitive functions as problem solving and machine learning. The theoretical basis of neural networks was developed