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Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By : Jeff Tang
Book Image

Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By: Jeff Tang

Overview of this book

As a developer, you always need to keep an eye out and be ready for what will be trending soon, while also focusing on what's trending currently. So, what's better than learning about the integration of the best of both worlds, the present and the future? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as the next big thing after mobile, and Google's TensorFlow is the leading open source machine learning framework, the hottest branch of AI. This book covers more than 10 complete iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi apps powered by TensorFlow and built from scratch, running all kinds of cool TensorFlow models offline on-device: from computer vision, speech and language processing to generative adversarial networks and AlphaZero-like deep reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use or retrain existing TensorFlow models, build your own models, and develop intelligent mobile apps running those TensorFlow models. You'll learn how to quickly build such apps with step-by-step tutorials and how to avoid many pitfalls in the process with lots of hard-earned troubleshooting tips.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the amazing world of AlphaZero, the latest and greatest achievement of DeepMind as of December 2017. We showed you how to train an AlphaZero-like model for Connect 4, using the powerful Keras API with the TensorFlow backend, and how to test and possibly improve such a model. Then we froze the model and covered in detail how to build iOS and Android apps to use the model and play Connect 4 with the model-powered AI. It's not the exact AlphaZero model that can beat human Chess or GO champions yet, but we hope this chapter provides you with a solid foundation and motivates you to continue your work in replicating what AlphaZero did first and further expanding it to other problem domains. It'll take a lot of hard work, but will be totally worth it.

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