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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


Chatbots can, in theory, do just about anything that does not require a physical presence. They can help customers book flights, discover new recipes, solve banking issues, find the right TV to purchase, send flowers to a spouse, tutor a student, and tell a joke.

The natural language interface is so general purpose that it forms the basis of Turing's famous Imitation Game thought experiment. Turing's test, as it has come to be known, describes a way to gauge whether an AI is truly intelligent. In his test, a human and a machine communicate with a human judge through a text interface. The goal of the judge is to determine which of the two interlocutors is the machine.

A subtle but critical feature of Turing's test that many people fail to understand is that both the human behind the keyboard and the machine are trying to convince the judge that the other contestant is the computer. The test is not just whether a machine acts humanlike, but whether it can...