A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

Giant brain of words,
dreaming in a trillion lines,
poetry sparks out.

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Nguyen, Duc-Tam (2025). The Little Book of Artificial Intelligence

@book{Nguyen2025TLBoAlgo,
  author = {Duc-Tam Nguyen},
  title  = {The Little Book of Artificial Intelligence},
  year   = {2025},
  url    = {https://github.com/little-book-of/ai}
}

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