The Artificial Intelligence Handbook: Business Applications

Rating:
Summary: optimistic overview
Review: The authors write for an educated person who wants a good idea of how artificial intelligence is currently applied in industry. In part, this might be because you are aware that AI has been studied intensively in academia for decades. But you are interested in practical and successful deployments.

In this sense, the book is quite optimistic. It explains the mainstays of AI. Along the way, we meet such things as the Turing Test to see if a machine can mimic a human. Also, we see MIT's Eliza. Famed since the 70s, despite its primitive text interface.

For current applications, the authors give a good survey of the field. From manufacturing case studies to finance. Like discerning good credit risks. The book also discusses neural nets, which are sometimes seen as a different and competing approach to AI.