A Gentle Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning

This tutorial discusses some powerful techniques which can be used to build artificial intelligent (AI) systems which act rational in the sense of following an overarching goal. AI Principle: Based on the perceived environment, compute actions ( decisions) in order to maximize a long-term return. The actual implementation of this principle requires, of course, to have a precise definition for what is meant by "perceived environment", "actions" and "return". We highlight that those definitions are essentially a design choice which have to be made by an AI scientist or engineer which is facing a particular application domain. Let us consider some application domains where AI systems could be used (beneficially?): - a routing app for Helsinki (similar to https://www.reittiopas.fi/):