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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By : Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.
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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

By: Chinmay Arankalle, Gareth Dwyer, Bas Geerdink, Kunal Gera, Kevin Liao, Anand N.S.

Overview of this book

Social networking sites see an average of 350 million uploads daily - a quantity impossible for humans to scan and analyze. Only AI can do this job at the required speed, and to leverage an AI application at its full potential, you need an efficient and scalable data storage pipeline. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop will teach you how to build and manage one. The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop begins taking you through some real-world applications of AI. You’ll explore the layers of a data lake and get to grips with security, scalability, and maintainability. With the help of hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to define the requirements for AI applications in your organization. This AI book will show you how to select a database for your system and run common queries on databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra. You’ll also design your own AI trading system to get a feel of the pipeline-based architecture. As you learn to implement a deep Q-learning algorithm to play the CartPole game, you’ll gain hands-on experience with PyTorch. Finally, you’ll explore ways to run machine learning models in production as part of an AI application. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to build and deploy your own AI software at scale, using various tools, API frameworks, and serialization methods.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
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4. The Ethics of AI Data Storage

Introduction to NoSQL Data Stores on the Cloud

You may wonder why NoSQL exists when a relational database is powerful enough to store data. As the internet grows, data grows exponentially. And data comes in different shapes and forms. For example, there is more and more long-form document data that needs to be stored somewhere. Not only do we need a database solution to store long-form document data, but it also allows us to query the text data efficiently. Relational databases aren't built for such a use case. Therefore, there are more and more new database technologies emerging, especially in the world of NoSQL databases.

NoSQL databases, also known as non-relational databases, is the other type of database that we can use, as opposed to the relational database. Unlike a relational database, which has a tabular structure and a well-defined entity relationship, NoSQL databases don't require a strict structure or schema. When you are working with a NoSQL database, you...