Editor’s note: This is an edited extract from AI Crash Course, by Hadelin de Ponteves, published by Packt. Find out more and buy a copy of the book by visiting here.

When people refer to AI today, some of them think of Machine Learning, while others think of Reinforcement Learning. I fall into the second category. I always saw Machine Learning as statistical models that have the ability to learn some correlations, from which they make predictions without being explicitly...