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

Visualizing characters in an optical character recognition database

Neural networks can also be used for optical character recognition. It is perhaps one of its most common use cases. Converting handwriting to computer characters has been a fundamental problem that many computer scientists have tried to solve and has yet remained elusive. We have made great advances but, for obvious reasons, 100% accuracy will remain out of reach. Why?

Think about this scenario. Have you ever written anything down and five minutes later, you are unable to read your own handwriting? Computers will always have this problem as well. There is an infinite number of ways to write down the number 6 and some of them will look more like a 0 or a 5 than a 6. I might be wrong, but I think we will find a cure for cancer before we are able to find a reliable way for a computer to recognize a doctor's handwriting. We can already achieve high levels of accuracy and the more beautiful the handwriting...