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AI Crash Course

AI Crash Course

By : Hadelin de Ponteves
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AI Crash Course

AI Crash Course

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By: Hadelin de Ponteves
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Overview of this book

Welcome to the Robot World … and start building intelligent software now! Through his best-selling video courses, Hadelin de Ponteves has taught hundreds of thousands of people to write AI software. Now, for the first time, his hands-on, energetic approach is available as a book. Starting with the basics before easing you into more complicated formulas and notation, AI Crash Course gives you everything you need to build AI systems with reinforcement learning and deep learning. Five full working projects put the ideas into action, showing step-by-step how to build intelligent software using the best and easiest tools for AI programming, including Python, TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch. AI Crash Course teaches everyone to build an AI to work in their applications. Once you've read this book, you're only limited by your imagination.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Welcome to the Robot World
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Welcome to the Robot World
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Beginning the AI journey
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Four different AI models
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Where can learning AI take you?
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Summary
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Discover Your AI Toolkit
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Discover Your AI Toolkit
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The GitHub page
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Colaboratory
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Summary
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Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python
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Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python
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Displaying text
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Variables and operations
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Lists and arrays
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if statements and conditions
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for and while loops
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Functions
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Classes and objects
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Summary
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AI Foundation Techniques
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AI Foundation Techniques
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What is Reinforcement Learning?
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The five principles of Reinforcement Learning
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Summary
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Your First AI Model – Beware the Bandits!
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Your First AI Model – Beware the Bandits!
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The multi-armed bandit problem
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The Thompson Sampling model
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Summary
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AI for Sales and Advertising – Sell like the Wolf of AI Street
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AI for Sales and Advertising – Sell like the Wolf of AI Street
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Problem to solve
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Building the environment inside a simulation
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AI solution and intuition refresher
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Implementation
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Summary
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Welcome to Q-Learning
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Welcome to Q-Learning
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The Maze
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The whole Q-learning process
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Summary
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AI for Logistics – Robots in a Warehouse
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AI for Logistics – Robots in a Warehouse
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Building the environment
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Implementation
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Summary
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Going Pro with Artificial Brains – Deep Q-Learning
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Going Pro with Artificial Brains – Deep Q-Learning
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Predicting house prices
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Deep learning theory
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Deep Q-learning
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Summary
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AI for Autonomous Vehicles – Build a Self-Driving Car
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AI for Autonomous Vehicles – Build a Self-Driving Car
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Building the environment
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AI solution refresher
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Implementation
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The demo
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Summary
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AI for Business – Minimize Costs with Deep Q-Learning
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AI for Business – Minimize Costs with Deep Q-Learning
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Problem to solve
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Building the environment
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AI solution
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The demo
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Recap – The general AI framework/Blueprint
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Summary
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Deep Convolutional Q-Learning
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Deep Convolutional Q-Learning
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What are CNNs used for?
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How do CNNs work?
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Deep convolutional Q-learning
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Summary
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AI for Games – Become the Master at Snake
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AI for Games – Become the Master at Snake
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Problem to solve
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Building the environment
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AI solution
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Implementation
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The demo
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Summary
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Recap and Conclusion
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Recap and Conclusion
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Recap – The general AI framework/blueprint
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Exploring what's next for you in AI
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Leave a review - let other readers know what you think
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Index
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Index

Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python

This chapter is for people who have little or no experience with the Python programming language. If you already know how to use for/while loops, methods, and classes in Python, you can skip this chapter and you shouldn't have any problems later on.

If, however, you have not used Python before, or have only barely used it, I strongly recommend that you follow this guide. You'll learn how to code the elements of Python I mentioned in the previous paragraph, you'll fully understand the codes included in this book and you'll be able to code in Python on your own. I'll also give you some additional exercises, called "homework" throughout the chapter, which I strongly recommend that you do.

Before you begin, open your Python editor. I recommend using the Google Colab notebook, introduced to you as part of your AI Toolkit in the previous chapter. All the code, along with...

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