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Artificial Intelligence with Python - Second Edition

By : Alberto Artasanchez, Prateek Joshi
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Artificial Intelligence with Python - Second Edition

By: Alberto Artasanchez, Prateek Joshi

Overview of this book

Artificial Intelligence with Python, Second Edition is an updated and expanded version of the bestselling guide to artificial intelligence using the latest version of Python 3.x. Not only does it provide you an introduction to artificial intelligence, this new edition goes further by giving you the tools you need to explore the amazing world of intelligent apps and create your own applications. This edition also includes seven new chapters on more advanced concepts of Artificial Intelligence, including fundamental use cases of AI; machine learning data pipelines; feature selection and feature engineering; AI on the cloud; the basics of chatbots; RNNs and DL models; and AI and Big Data. Finally, this new edition explores various real-world scenarios and teaches you how to apply relevant AI algorithms to a wide swath of problems, starting with the most basic AI concepts and progressively building from there to solve more difficult challenges so that by the end, you will have gained a solid understanding of, and when best to use, these many artificial intelligence techniques.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Building an image classifier using a single-layer neural network

Let's see how to create a single-layer neural network using TensorFlow and use it to build an image classifier. We will be using the MNIST image dataset to build our system. It is a dataset containing images of handwritten digits. Our goal is to build a classifier that can correctly identify the digit in each image.

Create a new Python file and import the following packages:

import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data

Extract the MNIST image data. The one_hot flag specifies that we will be using one-hot encoding in our labels. It means that if we have n classes, then the label for a given data point will be an array of length n. Each element in this array corresponds to a given class. To specify a class, the value at the corresponding index will be set to 1 and everything else will be 0:

# Get the MNIST data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("./mnist_data...