From the course: Foundations of AI and Machine Learning for Java Developers

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High-level description of AI and ML

High-level description of AI and ML

- [Instructor] Now, what is artificial intelligence and machine learning? We'll have to go back to the mid 50s when the first artificial intelligence, or AI, conference at Dartmouth was organized by John McCarthy, a very famous computer scientist. McCarthy invented a programming language called LISP, so he's a well-known computer scientist. He also invented garbage collection, which most of you Java developers should be aware of. Now, this is back in the mid 50s One of the goals of this conference was to see if they could simulate human intelligence using a machine. Another major goal was to deepen our understanding of how human intelligence works. Since the time of that conference, a lot has gone on with AI in its most popular subset, machine learning. You can see for this diagram that AI, which simulates human intelligence using machines, is the big field of study and machine learning is its very important subset. You know, machine learning or ML, is specifically all about pattern…

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