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What Is Artificial Intelligence?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered, once again, to be one of the most exciting advances of our time. Virtual assistants can determine our music tastes with remarkable accuracy, cars are now able to drive themselves, and mobile apps can reverse diseases once considered to be chronic and progressive.

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Panesar, A. (2019). What Is Artificial Intelligence?. In: Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare . Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3799-1_1

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