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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

In the previous chapter, you learned how to use Apache Spark to process large amounts of data in a pipeline architecture. We'll be looking at a pipeline design again in this chapter and see how we can use pipelines as a powerful system design.

Between 1998 and 2005, the US Navy spent over $1 billion on four separate attempts to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system based on SAP AG software. These efforts were regarded as failures, with nearly no value to show for the money that was spent. This shows why having proper designs and plans in place is important, and what can go wrong if the implementation of a system is started before a proper plan is created. Bad design and planning are such a common problem in the software engineering industry that it has led to the much-quoted joke, "A few weeks of coding can save you hours of planning."

While it's often tempting to start building systems from the get-go, this approach makes it...