You're reading from Artificial Intelligence with Python Your complete guide to building intelligent apps using Python 3.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839219535

Length 618 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

TensorFlow

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (2):

Prateek Joshi

Alberto Artasanchez

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

2. Fundamental Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence FREE CHAPTER

3. Machine Learning Pipelines

4. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering

5. Classification and Regression Using Supervised Learning

6. Predictive Analytics with Ensemble Learning

7. Detecting Patterns with Unsupervised Learning

8. Building Recommender Systems

9. Logic Programming

10. Heuristic Search Techniques

11. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming

12. Artificial Intelligence on the Cloud

13. Building Games with Artificial Intelligence

14. Building a Speech Recognizer

15. Natural Language Processing

16. Chatbots

17. Sequential Data and Time Series Analysis

18. Image Recognition

19. Neural Networks

20. Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks

21. Recurrent Neural Networks and Other Deep Learning Models

22. Creating Intelligent Agents with Reinforcement Learning

23. Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

The top cloud providers

Given the tsunami that is the cloud, many vendors are vying to quench the demand for cloud services. However, as is often the case in technology markets, only a few have bubbled to the top and dominate the space. In this section, we'll analyze the top players.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services is one of the cloud pioneers. Since it launched in 2006, AWS has ranked highly in the greatly respected Gartner's Magic Quadrant in both vision and execution. Since its inception, AWS has held a big chunk of the cloud market. AWS is an appealing option both for legacy players as well as start-ups. According to Gartner:

"AWS is the provider most commonly chosen for strategic, organization-wide adoption"

AWS also has an army of consultants and advisors dedicated to helping its customers deploy AWS services as well as to teach them how to best leverage the services available. In summary, it is safe to say that AWS...