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Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By : Niloy Purkait
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Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By: Niloy Purkait

Overview of this book

Neural networks are used to solve a wide range of problems in different areas of AI and deep learning. Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras will start with teaching you about the core concepts of neural networks. You will delve into combining different neural network models and work with real-world use cases, including computer vision, natural language understanding, synthetic data generation, and many more. Moving on, you will become well versed with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, autoencoders, and generative adversarial networks (GANs) using real-world training datasets. We will examine how to use CNNs for image recognition, how to use reinforcement learning agents, and many more. We will dive into the specific architectures of various networks and then implement each of them in a hands-on manner using industry-grade frameworks. By the end of this book, you will be highly familiar with all prominent deep learning models and frameworks, and the options you have when applying deep learning to real-world scenarios and embedding artificial intelligence as the core fabric of your organization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Neural Networks
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Section 2: Advanced Neural Network Architectures
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Section 3: Hybrid Model Architecture
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Section 4: Road Ahead

Path to artificial general intelligence

Take the example of the AlphaGo system, which was developed by UK-based start-up DeepMind, which leverages an acute flavor of deep reinforcement learning to inform its predictions. There is good reason behind Google's move to acquire it for a round sum of $500 million, since many claim that DeepMind has made first steps toward something called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—sort of the Holy Grail of AI, if you will. This notion refers to the capability of an artificially intelligent system to perform well on various tasks, instead of the narrow span of application our networks have taken so far. A system that learns through observing its own actions on an environment is similar in spirit (and potentially much faster) to how we humans learn ourselves.

The networks we built in the previous chapters perform well at a narrow...