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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

Continuous evaluation


The logo detector developed in this chapter does not continuously update its network weights after being deployed. Once it is trained to recognize a set of logos, it should continue to do so with the same accuracy. There is a chance that, after being deployed, the kinds of photos people take gradually changes over time. For example, the increased popularity of Instagram filters and related image manipulations might begin to confuse the logo detector.

In any case, it is still important to continuously evaluate whether the detector is working as expected. This is a somewhat challenging exercise because it requires that humans are in the loop. Every photo with a detected logo can be saved to a database for later examination. Our logo detector code does this. Every so often, a team of people can be asked to critique the tool's predictions to produce a continuously updated measure of precision.

Measuring recall is more challenging. Among the universe of photos shared on social...