Book Image

AI Blueprints

By : Dr. Joshua Eckroth, Eric Schoen
Book Image

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

Deployment strategy


There are many use cases for finding trends and anomalies, and many techniques for accomplishing these goals. This chapter has reviewed just a handful of popular approaches. We will not explore all of the various use cases with example code, but we will address two scenarios. First, recall the Google Analytics anomaly detector. It notified the user of anomalous (very high or very low) page views or visitors to a website by comparing the observed number of page views or visitors to the predicted number. The predicted number had a range (curiously, the range in the screenshot in Figure 1 is 2.13 to 35.4 page views for the day, which is not an especially precise prediction), and the observed value (43 page views) exceeded this range. Recall also that the documentation for Google Analytics, quoted in the introduction to this chapter, states that they use a 90-day window with a Bayesian state space-time series model.

We developed such a model in a previous section, called a...