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An Intuitive Exploration of Artificial Intelligence

Theory and Applications of Deep Learning

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  • Presents an intuitive and comprehensive view of AI, with emphasis on theory and applications of Deep Learning.
  • Mathematical notation is simplified and various illustrations are used to convey concepts in an intuitive manner, making this suitable for anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of AI
  • Emphasizes both the theoretical and applied sides of AI and therefore will be able to meet different learning needs
  • Builds a high-level, unifying, insightful, bird's eye view of a plethora of techniques based on deep neural networks and their numerous variations for different applications
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. AI Sculpture

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 3-26
    3. Make Me Learn

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 27-43
    4. Images and Sequences

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 45-63
    5. Why AI Works

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 65-99
    6. Novice to Maestro

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 101-120
    7. Unleashing the Power of Generation

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 121-139
    8. The Road Most Rewarded

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 141-157
    9. The Classical World

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 159-173
  3. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
    2. To See Is to Believe

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 177-206
    3. Read, Read, Read

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 207-226
    4. Lend Me Your Ear

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 227-236
    5. Create Your Shire and Rivendell

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 237-247
    6. Math to Code to Petaflops

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 249-260
    7. AI and Business

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 261-266
  4. The Road Ahead

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
    2. Keep Marching On

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 269-283
    3. Benevolent AI for All

      • Simant Dube
      Pages 285-291

About this book

This book develops a conceptual understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning and Machine Learning in the truest sense of the word. It is an earnest endeavor to unravel what is happening at the algorithmic level, to grasp how applications are being built and to show the long adventurous road in the future.


An Intuitive Exploration of Artificial Intelligence offers insightful details on how AI works and solves problems in computer vision, natural language understanding, speech understanding, reinforcement learning and synthesis of new content. From the classic problem of recognizing cats and dogs, to building autonomous vehicles, to translating text into another language, to automatically converting speech into text and back to speech, to generating neural art, to playing games, and the author's own experience in building solutions in industry, this book is about explaining how exactly the myriad applications of AI flow out of its immense potential.



The book is intended to serve as a textbook for graduate and senior-level undergraduate courses in AI. Moreover, since the book provides a strong geometrical intuition about advanced mathematical foundations of AI,  practitioners and researchers will equally benefit from the book.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Technology and Innovation Office, Varian Medical Systems, A Siemens Healthineers Company, Palo Alto, USA

    Simant Dube

About the author

Dr. Simant Dube is a Silicon Valley veteran with over two decades of experience in industry. He is currently Head of Machine Vision, Advanced AI, at Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto where he leads the application of AI in medicine.  Prior to his present role, Dr. Dube was Technical Director, Center for Advanced Machine Learning, at Symantec, Mountain View. Trained as a computer engineer, he has worked in medical imaging, cybersecurity, robotics, visual search, web search and biotechnology. In addition to his Silicon Valley experience, Dr. Dube is a former academic and educator and he has supervised students including those at PhD level. He recently taught courses in Deep Learning at New College of Florida, Sarasota, for one year and contributed to the development of an inaugural data science program. Dr. Dube was a visiting faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Delhi, as a Ramanujan Fellow. He was a Canada International Fellow at Western University, London,Canada and he taught computer science at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Intuitive Exploration of Artificial Intelligence

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications of Deep Learning

  • Authors: Simant Dube

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68624-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68623-9Published: 22 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68626-0Published: 23 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68624-6Published: 21 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 352

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Multiagent Systems, Pattern Recognition

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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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