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Python Deep Learning

By : Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants
Book Image

Python Deep Learning

By: Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants

Overview of this book

With an increasing interest in AI around the world, deep learning has attracted a great deal of public attention. Every day, deep learning algorithms are used broadly across different industries. The book will give you all the practical information available on the subject, including the best practices, using real-world use cases. You will learn to recognize and extract information to increase predictive accuracy and optimize results. Starting with a quick recap of important machine learning concepts, the book will delve straight into deep learning principles using Sci-kit learn. Moving ahead, you will learn to use the latest open source libraries such as Theano, Keras, Google's TensorFlow, and H20. Use this guide to uncover the difficulties of pattern recognition, scaling data with greater accuracy and discussing deep learning algorithms and techniques. Whether you want to dive deeper into Deep Learning, or want to investigate how to get more out of this powerful technology, you’ll find everything inside.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Deep Learning
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Early game playing AI


Building AI's to play games started in the 50's with researchers building programs that played checkers and chess. These two games have a few properties in common:

  • They are zero-sum games. Any reward that one player receives is a corresponding loss to the other player and vice versa. When one player wins, the other loses. There is no possibility of cooperation. For example, consider a game such as the prisoner's dilemma; here, the two players can agree to cooperate and both receive a smaller reward.

  • They are both games of perfect information. The entire state of the game is always known to both the players unlike a game such as poker, where the exact cards that your opponents are holding is unknown. This fact reduces the complexity that the AI must handle. It also means that a decision about what the best move can be made is based on just the current state. In poker, the hypothetical optimal decision about how to play would require information that is not just on your...