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AI Blueprints

By : Dr. Joshua Eckroth, Eric Schoen
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AI Blueprints

By: Dr. Joshua Eckroth, Eric Schoen

Overview of this book

AI Blueprints gives you a working framework and the techniques to build your own successful AI business applications. You’ll learn across six business scenarios how AI can solve critical challenges with state-of-the-art AI software libraries and a well thought out workflow. Along the way you’ll discover the practical techniques to build AI business applications from first design to full coding and deployment. The AI blueprints in this book solve key business scenarios. The first blueprint uses AI to find solutions for building plans for cloud computing that are on-time and under budget. The second blueprint involves an AI system that continuously monitors social media to gauge public feeling about a topic of interest - such as self-driving cars. You’ll learn how to approach AI business problems and apply blueprints that can ensure success. The next AI scenario shows you how to approach the problem of creating a recommendation engine and monitoring how those recommendations perform. The fourth blueprint shows you how to use deep learning to find your business logo in social media photos and assess how people interact with your products. Learn the practical techniques involved and how to apply these blueprints intelligently. The fifth blueprint is about how to best design a ‘trending now’ section on your website, much like the one we know from Twitter. The sixth blueprint shows how to create helpful chatbots so that an AI system can understand customers’ questions and answer them with relevant responses. This book continuously demonstrates a working framework and strategy for building AI business applications. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to prepare for future advances in AI. You’ll gain a workflow and a toolbox of patterns and techniques so that you can create your own smart code.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
AI Blueprints
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

The problem, goal, and business case


According to the AI workflow developed in Chapter 1, The AI Workflow, the first step in building and deploying an AI project is to identify the problem that the AI will solve. The problem should be related to a business concern and have a well-defined goal. Equally, the problem should also be known to be solvable by existing AI technologies, thus ensuring a team does not engage in an uncertain research effort that may never yield results.

In most organizations, user feedback is a valuable source of information about the success and deficiencies of a product or service. Except in rare and possibly apocryphal cases, such as Apple's Steve Jobs, who supposedly never engaged in market research or focus groups ("people don't know what they want until you show it to them," https://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2011/10/17/five-dangerous-lessons-to-learn-from-steve-jobs/#1748a3763a95), user feedback can help refine or repair designs. Sampling the populace's opinion...