THE MASTER ALGORITHM How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

Traditionally, the only way to make a computer execute a task is to write precise instructions: an algorithm. As the author notes in this enthusiastic but not dumbed-down introduction to machine learning, it is impossible to "write a program to tell a computer how to drive a car or decipher han...

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Published inKirkus reviews (New York, N.Y. : 1991) Vol. LXXXIII; no. 13
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Austin Kirkus Media LLC 01.07.2015
Subjects
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Computers
Mathematics
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ISSN1948-7428

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Summary:Traditionally, the only way to make a computer execute a task is to write precise instructions: an algorithm. As the author notes in this enthusiastic but not dumbed-down introduction to machine learning, it is impossible to "write a program to tell a computer how to drive a car or decipher handwriting, but if we give enough examples to a computer running a learning algorithm, it will figure out how to do it on its own."
ISSN:1948-7428