Welcome to the special winter vacation premium column “High-Tech Lessons for Kids” launched by Science Popularization China!
As one of the most cutting-edge technologies today, artificial intelligence is changing our lives at an astonishing pace. From smart voice assistants to self-driving cars, from AI painting to machine learning, it opens a future full of infinite possibilities for us. This column will explain the principles, applications, and far-reaching impacts of artificial intelligence in a simple and understandable way through videos and text for children.
Let’s embark on this AI journey together!
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Machine Learning
Machine learning is an important branch of artificial intelligence, and its main idea is to allow computers to “learn” by themselves. It analyzes and finds patterns from a large amount of data, classifying or clustering the data to make judgments about new data.
In our daily lives, the vast majority of artificial intelligence technologies utilize machine learning. However, people often mix terms like “machine learning”, “deep learning”, and “neural networks”, while in fact, they are at different levels.
There are many methods for machine learning, and artificial neural networks are one of those methods. Besides that, there are also support vector machines, decision trees, KNN, K-means, and other methods.
Therefore, artificial neural networks are a subset of machine learning. Neural networks with more than two hidden layers are called deep neural networks. Using deep neural networks to train data is referred to as deep learning.
Generally, training of convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, LSTM, and transformers all belong to deep learning.