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Prateek Joshi
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Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.
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Is heuristic search artificial intelligence?

In Chapter 2, Fundamental Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence, we learned about the five tribes as defined by Pedro Domingos. One of the most "ancient" tribes is the symbolist tribe. At least to me, this fact is not surprising. As humans, we try to find rules and patterns in everything. Unfortunately, the world is sometimes messy and not everything follows simple rules.

This is the reason why other tribes emerged to help us when we don't have an orderly world. However, when our search spaces are small and the domain is limited, using heuristics, constraint satisfaction, and other techniques laid out in this chapter, is useful for this set of problems. These techniques are useful when the number of combinations is relatively small and combinatorial explosion is limited. For example, solving the traveling salesman problem is simple with these techniques when the number of cities is around 20. If we try to solve the...

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Published in: Jan 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839219535

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Prateek Joshi

Prateek Joshi is the founder of Plutoshift and a published author of 9 books on Artificial Intelligence. He has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Business Journals. He has been an invited speaker at conferences such as TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. Apart from Artificial Intelligence, some of the topics that excite him are number theory, cryptography, and quantum computing. His greater goal is to make Artificial Intelligence accessible to everyone so that it can impact billions of people around the world.
Read more about Prateek Joshi