Most people are increasingly confronted with the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Music or video ratings navigation systems shopping advice etc. are based on methods that can
be attributed to this field. The term Artificial Intelligence was coined in 1956 at an
international conference known as the Dartmouth Summer Research Project. One basic approach was
to model the functioning of the human brain and to construct advanced computer systems based on
this. Soon it should be clear how the human mind works. Transferring it to a machine was
considered only a small step. This notion proved to be a bit too optimistic. Nevertheless the
progress of modern AI or rather its subspecialty called Machine Learning (ML) can no longer
be denied. In this book several different systems will be used to get to know the methods of
machine learning in more detail. In addition to the PC both the Raspberry Pi and the Maixduino
will demonstrate their capabilities in the individual projects. In addition to applications
such as object and facial recognition practical systems such as bottle detectors person
counters or a talking eye will also be created. The latter is capable of acoustically
describing objects or faces that are detected automatically. For example if a vehicle is in
the field of view of the connected camera the information I see a car! is output via
electronically generated speech. Such devices are highly interesting examples of how for
example blind or severely visually impaired people can also benefit from AI systems.
