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AI Crash Course

By : Hadelin de Ponteves
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AI Crash Course

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By: Hadelin de Ponteves

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.

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Welcome to the Robot World
Welcome to the Robot World
Beginning the AI journey
Four different AI models
Where can learning AI take you?
Summary
2
Discover Your AI Toolkit
Discover Your AI Toolkit
The GitHub page
Colaboratory
Summary
3
Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python
Python Fundamentals – Learn How to Code in Python
Displaying text
Variables and operations
Lists and arrays
if statements and conditions
for and while loops
Functions
Classes and objects
Summary
4
AI Foundation Techniques
AI Foundation Techniques
What is Reinforcement Learning?
The five principles of Reinforcement Learning
Summary
5
Your First AI Model – Beware the Bandits!
Your First AI Model – Beware the Bandits!
The multi-armed bandit problem
The Thompson Sampling model
Summary
6
AI for Sales and Advertising – Sell like the Wolf of AI Street
AI for Sales and Advertising – Sell like the Wolf of AI Street
Problem to solve
Building the environment inside a simulation
AI solution and intuition refresher
Implementation
Summary
7
Welcome to Q-Learning
Welcome to Q-Learning
The Maze
The whole Q-learning process
Summary
8
AI for Logistics – Robots in a Warehouse
AI for Logistics – Robots in a Warehouse
Building the environment
Implementation
Summary
9
Going Pro with Artificial Brains – Deep Q-Learning
Going Pro with Artificial Brains – Deep Q-Learning
Predicting house prices
Deep learning theory
Deep Q-learning
Summary
10
AI for Autonomous Vehicles – Build a Self-Driving Car
AI for Autonomous Vehicles – Build a Self-Driving Car
Building the environment
AI solution refresher
Implementation
The demo
Summary
11
AI for Business – Minimize Costs with Deep Q-Learning
AI for Business – Minimize Costs with Deep Q-Learning
Problem to solve
Building the environment
AI solution
The demo
Recap – The general AI framework/Blueprint
Summary
12
Deep Convolutional Q-Learning
Deep Convolutional Q-Learning
What are CNNs used for?
How do CNNs work?
Deep convolutional Q-learning
Summary
13
AI for Games – Become the Master at Snake
AI for Games – Become the Master at Snake
Problem to solve
Building the environment
AI solution
Implementation
The demo
Summary
14
Recap and Conclusion
Recap and Conclusion
Recap – The general AI framework/blueprint
Exploring what's next for you in AI
15
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16
Index
Index

Problem to solve

Imagine an e-commerce business that has millions of customers. These customers are people buying products on the website from time to time, getting those products delivered to their homes. The business is doing well, but the board of executives has decided to follow an action plan to maximize revenue.

This plan consists of offering the customers the option to subscribe to a premium plan, which will give them benefits like reduced prices, special deals, and so on. This premium plan is offered at a yearly price of $200, and the goal of this e-commerce business is, of course, to get the maximum number of customers to subscribe to this premium plan. Let's do some quick math to give us some motivation for building an AI to maximize the revenue of this business.

Let's say that this e-commerce business has 100 million customers. Now consider two strategies to convert the customers to the premium plan: a bad one, with a conversion rate of 1%, and...

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