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Dave Robb

Melton Computer Club

Minutes of Annual General Meeting 15 January 2020
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1. Meeting started at 7.40pm.

2. Apologies - None

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3. Minutes of 16 January 2019 were approved as a true record of the meeting.

4. Matters Arising - No matters arising from the above minutes.

5. Chair’s Report

The theme of Barry Gilchrist’s annual report to the members was Artificial Intelligence or AI. And as usu-
al, he gave us plenty to think about. Barry started off by giving the members an incite into what AI is with
the aid of a PowerPoint presentation.

AI :- AI is the intelligence given to machine to simulate the human intelligence like responding and behav-
ing in a circumstance. It can include Machine learning, Natural language processing, Robotics, General in-
telligence or strong AI, Others. It's a superset of ML

ML:- ML is specific field of AI which helps to develop the program based on sample data(Training
data) instead of hardcoding rules/programming like sum/multiplication. Basically, machine learning is
learning from past data and then predict/classify the given input. It can for example help in Recommenda-
tion engine/Fraud detection/Image processing etc

Deep Learning :- DL is further subset of ML and deeper than that. In ML , software upfront knows the
features of training data and their output classify but in DL, algorithm itself identifies the relevant features/
attributes of training data.

NN:- Neural network is specific group of algorithms used for machine learning that models the data using
graphs of Artificial Neurons, those neurons are a mathematical model that “mimics approximately how a
neuron in the brain works”. So we can say ML/DL uses the NN algorithm to do their work

A lot of AI depends on vast amounts of data.