The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
by Pedro Domingos
Recommended by Vinod Khosla and Mark Cuban
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Best Artificial Intelligence Books, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
A thoughtprovoking and wideranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our ownIn the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In Th...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Best Artificial Intelligence Books, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
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Vinod Khosla
“If you want speculation about what the master AI might need (one view). | Q: What's a book that changed your mind and why MC: The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos. I hadn’t been convinced that it was prime time for AI. It is.”
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