Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. What’s the Real Difference?

Sushant Srivastav
The Startup
Published in
8 min readJul 9, 2020

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The twenty-first century brought tremendous technological advancement that we could not dream about a couple of decades earlier. Today, it can be found that people benefit from Google’s AI-controlled predictions, Ridesharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, as well as commercial flights with an AI autopilot that uses everyday music recommender systems to involve artificial intelligence, Google maps, and many more apps are powered with AI. However, there is still a misunderstanding between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. One of Google’s popular queries reads: “is machine learning and artificial intelligence the same thing?” or “is artificial intelligence a subset of machine learning?”

AI, machine learning, and deep learning are interchangeable and easily confusing, so begin with a brief intro about them.

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Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence, also called machine intelligence, can be understood by an intelligence, unlike the natural intelligence shown by humans and animals, which is demonstrated by machines. It looks at ways of designing intelligent devices and systems that can address problems creatively that are often treated as a human prerogative. Thus, AI means that a machine somehow imitates human behavior.

Machine Learning: Machine learning is an AI subset and consists of techniques that enable computers to recognize data and supply AI applications. Different algorithms (e.g., neural networks) contribute to problem resolution in ML.

Deep Learning: Deep learning, often called deep neural learning or deep neural network, is a subset of machine learning that uses neural networks to evaluate various factors with a similar framework to a human neural system. It has networks that can learn from unstructured or unlabeled data without supervision.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Let’s dive into the branches of Artificial Intelligence:

AI systems are categorized by their ability to replicate human characteristics, their technology applications, their applications in the real world, and mind theory, which will be further discussed below.

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  1. Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), which has a narrow range of abilities.
  2. Artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is on par with human capabilities.
  3. Artificial superintelligence (ASI), which is more capable than actual human intelligence.

Narrow/Weak AI

Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), also referred to as weak AI or narrow AI, is the only type of artificial intelligence we have successfully realized. Narrow AI is aim-oriented to perform different tasks — i.e., face recognition, speech recognition/voice assistants, automobile driving, and internet search — and is smart when carrying out a particular task.

You may have learned of Deep Blue, the first machine in chess to beat a human. Not just any human — in 1996 Garry Kasparov. Deep Blue can produce about 200 million chess positions per second and analyze them. In the whole scenario, some did not readily call it AI in its entirety, while others thought that it was one of the first examples of weak AI.

Strong AI / Deep AI

General Intelligence (AGI) is a concept of a computer that imitates human intelligence and behaviors, with its ability to learn and use its intelligence to solve any problem, which is also referred to as a Strong AI or deep AI. AGI can, in any given situation, think, understand, and behave in a manner that can be no different from that of a human being.

That is where robots can become human-like in the future. They decide themselves and learn without human intervention. They learn. They are not only able to solve intellectual problems but feelings.

When one sees the human brain as the model of the creation of general intelligence, the immense challenge of achieving strong AI is not surprising. Scientists fail to reproduce the essential functions of sight and motion without a solid understanding of the human brain’s features.

Superintelligence

Superintelligence is the conceptual AI that does not merely mimic or recognize human intelligence and behavior; ASI means that computers are self-conscious and outperform human ability and knowledge.

It is the material that everyone wants to learn about AI. Machines, long before humans. Articulate, articulate, imaginative, and outstanding professional competence. Its purpose is to either enhance or kill the lives of human beings.

It may seem enticing to have such powerful tools at our fingertips, but there are many unknown implications for the idea itself. If super-intelligent and self-conscious beings were to be created, they would be able to have concepts like autonomy. It is mere speculation that will impact humanity, our future, and our way of life.

The word AI says nothing about solving these issues. Include rules-based or expert systems; there are many different techniques. In the 1980s, one group of methods became more common: machine learning.

MACHINE LEARNING

What exactly is Machine Learning?
With new computer technologies, today’s machine learning is not like machine learning from the past. It was born from the identification of patterns and the idea that computers would learn without programming themselves for specific tasks; scientists interested in artificial intelligence wanted to see if computers could learn from data.

The early researchers found that problems were many more difficult because the old techniques used for AI were not compatible with those problems. Hard-coded algorithms or fixed, rule-based systems didn’t work very well for things like image recognition or text-based extraction.

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“The solution proved not only to mimic human behavior (AI) and to imitate the way people learn.”

Consider how you have learned to read. Before you picked up your first book, you did not sit and learn orthotics and grammar. You read basic books, which over time, became more complicated. You learned the laws of orthography and grammar (and exceptions) from your lecture. In other words, you have processed and learned a lot of information.

This is the idea of machine learning precisely. Feed a lot of data into an algorithm (unlike the brain) and let things figure out. Feed an algorithm a lot of financial transaction information, tell them which financial transactions are fraudulent, and make them work out what is fraudulent so that they can predict fraud in the future. Or supply your customer base information and let it know how to segment it best. Read more about machine learning here.

With the development of these algorithms, several problems could be dealt. But certain things people find simple (e.g., understanding of speech or writing) were still difficult for machines.

The notion that artificial neurons are the key elements of your brain was for some time to be used (neurons, bound by synapses). And software simulated neural networks began to be used for specific issues. They have been successful, and they can solve complex problems that other algorithms can not answer.

How can a particular machine learn?

We will need these three components to “educate” the machine or make the computer learn:

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Datasets:
A data set consists of collecting similar entities and values within a single body that can be viewed individually or as an entire item and structured with a data structure. Typically, building a successful dataset requires a lot of time and effort.

Two ways to collect data for your Model:
1. Rely on open-source data
2. Collect your data in the right way

Features:
Features are essential data objects, which are the key to the task’s solution. They are individual measures or characteristics of a phenomenon being observed. The selection of informative, discriminatory, and independent features is crucial for effective pattern recognition, classification, and regression algorithms. They display the machine what to pay attention to.

Algorithm:
An algorithm is a component that allows systems to learn and develop experience automatically without being programmed explicitly. There are extensive use and description of algorithms like linear regression, deep learning, coevolutionary networks, and recommendation systems. The accuracy or speed of the results will vary depending on the algorithm.

Types of Learning

There are four types of machine learning:

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  • Supervised Learning: Training data contains optimal outcomes (also known as inductive learning). Learning is tracked in this method. Some famous examples of supervised machine learning algorithms are Linear regression for regression problems.
  • Unsupervised Learning: There are not the desired outputs in the training results. Clustering is an example. It is impossible to know what is and what is not good learning.
  • Semi-supervised Learning: A few desired outputs are included in the training data.
  • Reinforcement Learning: Rewards are given after a sequence of actions. In a given case, it is a matter of taking appropriate steps to maximize compensation. It is the most ambitious method of learning in AI.

DEEP LEARNING

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence (AI) with networks capable of learning unsupervised from unstructured or unlabeled data. Also known as deep neural learning or deep neural network. Deep learning algorithms use hierarchical multi-level neural networks, in which the abstraction level slowly increases through non-linear input data transformations.

How does it actually work?

The digital era, which contributed to the proliferation of data in all forms, has been transformed into profound learning from all the corners of the world. Such data, also known as big data, come from outlets such as social media, Internet search engines, electronic commerce, and online videos. This massive amount of data can be easily accessed and exchanged through fintech applications, such as cloud computing.

The typically unstructured data, however, is so large that it may take decades for people to grasp it and extract relevant information. Companies understand the enormous potential that this wealth of information can bring about and are increasingly adapting for automated support to AI systems.

The specific number of neurons is called bias. In addition to the weights, this bias is added to the weighted amount of inputs to the neuron. When the neuron is activated, the outcome of the task decides. Each activated neuron passes the following layers. It goes on to the last second sheet. The final layer generating program outputs is the output layer in an artificial neural network.

Deep learning algorithms are very hype today, but a boundary between deep and not as deep algorithms.

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Sushant Srivastav
The Startup

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