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Pragmatic AI is the first truly practical guide to solving real-world problems with contemporary machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing tools. Writing for business professionals, decision-makers, and students who aren’t professional data scientists, Noah Gift demystifies all the tools and technologies you need to get results. He illuminates powerful off-the-shelf cloud-based solutions from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as accessible techniques using Python and R. Throughout, you’ll find simple, clear, and effective working solutions that show how to apply machine learning, AI and cloud computing together in virtually any organization, creating solutions that deliver results, and offer virtually unlimited scalability.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I: Introduction to Pragmatic AI
Chapter 1: Introduction to Pragmatic AI
Chapter 2: AI and ML Toolchain
Chapter 3: Spartan AI Lifecycle
Part II: AI in the Cloud
Chapter 4: Cloud AI Development with Google Cloud Platform
Chapter 5: Cloud Ai Development with Amazon Web Services
Part III: Creating Practical AI Applications from Scratch
Chapter 6: Predicting Social-Media Influence in the NBA
Chapter 7: Creating an Intelligent Slackbot on AWS
Chapter 8: Finding Project Management Insights from a Github Organization
Chapter 9: Dynamically Optimizing EC2 Instances on AWS
Chapter 10: Real Estate
Chapter 11: Production AI for User Generated Content (UGC)
Appendix A: AI Accelerators
Appendix B: Deciding on Cluster Size
Index