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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839211539

Length 578 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

TensorFlow

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Denis Rothman

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence through Reinforcement Learning

2. Building a Reward Matrix – Designing Your Datasets FREE CHAPTER

3. Machine Intelligence – Evaluation Functions and Numerical Convergence

4. Optimizing Your Solutions with K-Means Clustering

5. How to Use Decision Trees to Enhance K-Means Clustering

6. Innovating AI with Google Translate

7. Optimizing Blockchains with Naive Bayes

8. Solving the XOR Problem with a Feedforward Neural Network

9. Abstract Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

10. Conceptual Representation Learning

11. Combining Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning

12. AI and the Internet of Things (IoT)

13. Visualizing Networks with TensorFlow 2.x and TensorBoard

14. Preparing the Input of Chatbots with Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

15. Setting Up a Cognitive NLP UI/CUI Chatbot

16. Improving the Emotional Intelligence Deficiencies of Chatbots

17. Genetic Algorithms in Hybrid Neural Networks

18. Neuromorphic Computing

19. Quantum Computing

20. Answers to the Questions

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Part I – the background to blockchain technology

In this section, we will go through cryptocurrency mining with blockchains. Producing bitcoins with blockchains made the technology disruptive. The purpose of this section is to understand how the blockchain adventure started before moving on to subsequent uses of blockchain technology.

Blockchain technology will transform transactions in every field. Blockchains appeared in 2008. Nobody knows for sure who invented them. Each block contains an encrypted hash of its predecessor (previous block), the DateTime (timestamp) data, and the information regarding the transaction.

For more than 1,000 years, transactions have been mostly local book-keeping systems. For the past 100 years, even though the computer age changed the way information was managed, things did not change that much. Each company continued to keep its transactions to itself, only sharing some information through tedious systems.

Blockchain makes...