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Machine Learning: The New AI
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition - as well as some we don't yet use every day, including driverless cars. It is the basis of the new approach in computing where we do not write programs but collect data; the idea is to learn the algorithms for the tasks automatically from data. As computing devices grow more ubiquitous, a larger part of our lives and work is recorded digitally, and as "Big Data" has gotten bigger, the theory of machine learning - the foundation of efforts to process that data into knowledge - has also advanced.
In this audiobook, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general listener, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today's machine learning boom in context. He describes the basics of machine learning and some applications; the use of machine learning algorithms for pattern recognition; artificial neural networks inspired by the human brain; algorithms that learn associations between instances, with such applications as customer segmentation and learning recommendations; and reinforcement learning, when an autonomous agent learns act so as to maximize reward and minimize penalty. Alpaydin then considers some future directions for machine learning and the new field of "data science," and discusses the ethical and legal implications for data privacy and security.
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- John Smith
- 12-07-19
Very interesting.
Some sections were slightly technical but mostly the book was clear and simple. I enjoy Ed the book very much.
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- David shaw
- 07-11-23
A good solid foundation
Worth a listen if you are getting started with machine learning and AI. A tiny bit dated but does not take away the value.
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- Peter W
- 12-08-18
novice only
very brief intro only if you are totally new to ML otherwise not much new here
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-17
Good technical overview, but shallow on ethics
This was a useful book to understand the basic technical elements of machine learning, but the author gave very short thrift to the ethics and politics of machine learning. The author claims the book is a neutral overview, but very clearly has a vested interest in wanting to believe machine learning is - on net - always positive. The hidden bias, revealed in many of the examples, was towards corporate applications of machine learning to sell more products by extracting data from people. This should at least have been noted
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- Mr Phillip Ash
- 12-07-17
awesome background and nice summary of current tec
A great summary of the different types of machine learning algorithm. Great for someone looking to get a good overview understanding :)
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- Hilton Riddex
- 04-10-18
Interesting listen
I found the book interesting and informative. If you are looking for a book that glosses over the topics of machine learning and associated disciplines this book if for you. I am used to reading and listening to books that have a more hands on approach to learning the subject material. Still worth a listen and gave me more avenues to persue.
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- dina
- 03-01-20
worst book ever
it was stupid in so many levels. he just said that computers are clever. my grandmother could have written a more technical book. and she is dead.
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