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In the world’s leading research labs and universities, scientists race to create the ultimate learning algorithm—a system capable of discovering any knowledge from data and performing any task we desire. Pedro Domingos pulls back the curtain on the underlying techniques that power today’s dominant machine‑learning systems in Google, Amazon, and smartphones. He outlines a blueprint for a future universal learner, the Master Algorithm, and examines what its arrival would mean for business, science, and society at large. This book frames data‑ism as the contemporary philosophy and offers a comprehensive look at the mathematics, algorithms, and information theory that underpin the next generation of learning machines.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Technology & Computing/Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Pedro Domingos
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