How to Build a Simple Image Recognition System with TensorFlow (Part 1)

There are already lots of great articles covering these topics (for example here or here). And this isn't a discussion about whether AI will enslave humankind or merely steal all our jobs. You can find plenty of speculation and some premature fearmongering elsewhere. Instead, this post is a detailed description of how to get started in Machine Learning by building a system that is (somewhat) able to recognize what it sees in an image. I'm currently on a journey to learn about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.