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

Big data basics

There is an activity that you regularly perform today that you rarely did ten years ago, and certainly never did twenty years ago. Yet, if you were told you could never do this again, you would feel completely hamstrung. You probably already did it a few times today, or at least this week. What am I talking about? Want to take a guess? I am talking about performing a Google search.

Google hasn't been around that long, yet we are so dependent on it now. It has disrupted and upended a big swath of industries including magazine publishing, phone directories, newspapers, and so on. Nowadays, whenever we have a knowledge itch, we use Google to scratch it. This is especially the case due to our permanent link to the internet via cell phones. Google has almost become an extension of us.

Yet, have you stopped to think about the mechanics behind all of this incredible knowledge-finding? We literally have billions of documents at our fingertips that can&...