You're reading from AI Crash Course A fun and hands-on introduction to machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence with Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838645359

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Hadelin de Ponteves

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to the Robot World

2. Discover Your AI Toolkit FREE CHAPTER

3. Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python

4. AI Foundation Techniques

5. Your First AI Model – Beware the Bandits!

6. AI for Sales and Advertising – Sell like the Wolf of AI Street

7. Welcome to Q-Learning

8. AI for Logistics – Robots in a Warehouse

9. Going Pro with Artificial Brains – Deep Q-Learning

10. AI for Autonomous Vehicles – Build a Self-Driving Car

11. AI for Business – Minimize Costs with Deep Q-Learning

12. Deep Convolutional Q-Learning

13. AI for Games – Become the Master at Snake

14. Recap and Conclusion

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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16. Index

Problem to solve

Imagine an e-commerce business that has millions of customers. These customers are people buying products on the website from time to time, getting those products delivered to their homes. The business is doing well, but the board of executives has decided to follow an action plan to maximize revenue.

This plan consists of offering the customers the option to subscribe to a premium plan, which will give them benefits like reduced prices, special deals, and so on. This premium plan is offered at a yearly price of $200, and the goal of this e-commerce business is, of course, to get the maximum number of customers to subscribe to this premium plan. Let's do some quick math to give us some motivation for building an AI to maximize the revenue of this business.

Let's say that this e-commerce business has 100 million customers. Now consider two strategies to convert the customers to the premium plan: a bad one, with a conversion rate of 1%, and...