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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 a learning agent

In this section, we will build upon the work from our first cartpole example. Initially, the cartpole was just moving around. We are now going to try to balance the pole on top of the cart and try to make sure the pole stays upright. Ready to learn some more? Let's get to it.

First, create a new Python file and import the following packages:

import argparse
import gym

Define a function to parse the input arguments:

def build_arg_parser():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Run an environment')
    parser.add_argument('--input-env', dest='input_env', required=True,
            choices=['cartpole', 'mountaincar', 'pendulum'],
            help='Specify the name of the environment')
    return parser

Parse the input arguments:

if __name__=='__main__':
    args = build_arg_parser().parse_args()
    input_env = args.input_env...