Beginning the AI journey

Being a young AI scientist, I remember my first days in AI very well. This is important because this book is a crash course in AI. You don't need any prior knowledge of the field to work through the chapters.

In this book, I will explain the solid foundations of AI, while making sure to answer all the questions that I had back when I started in this field in detail. This means that everything will be explained step by step, and your learning process will follow a smooth path, supported by the relevant logic.

Having the right information at your fingertips is not enough to successfully break into the AI world. What you also need is energy, enthusiasm, and excitement. Even better, you need passion, and ideally obsession, about the subject. As an experienced tutor of online courses, I hope to pass on my knowledge and, most importantly, my passion.

In this book, you will go on a journey together with me, taking a path through a world of exciting AI applications, including many real-world case studies in the chapters. The applications will follow an increasing level of difficulty, from the simplest model in AI, to a much more advanced level.

For each of the AI applications, I will focus mostly on the intuition needed to understand them, and then, for those interested in the mathematics and pure theory behind the application, I will provide those as an option. The reason why I choose to focus on intuition rather than math is not only because I want to make this book easy to understand for everyone, but also because, in order to perform well in AI today, it is extremely important to have the right intuition. When you're solving a problem with AI, you have to figure out which model best fits your problem environment, and you can only do that when you have the proper intuition of how each AI model works.