Tag: machine learning

Latest Read: Grokking Machine Learning

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 10, 2024

Grokking Machine Learning by Luis Serrano. He holds a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Luis worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Combinatoire et d’Informatique Mathématique at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Today Luis is a research scientist in quantum artificial intelligence at Zapata Computing. He previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Google, Lead Artificial Intelligence Educator at Apple, and Head of Content in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Udacity.

The opening chapters provide a good overview to Machine Learning before addressing linear regression. As with previous Grokking series books (below) readers will certainly be learning about supervised algorithms that classifying data.

However Luis is also addressing a much needed understanding of established methods to simplify data clean up in order to make reporting actionable. Likewise, an understanding the basics of Python will make this book’s examples easily understood. To his credit, Luis’ feels that anyone with high school algebra will be able to understand his book.

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Artificial Intelligence Education Reading

Latest Read: Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date December 27, 2023

Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What to Do about Them by Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Hyrum Anderson.

Ram Shankar holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. For over 10 years he has worked as a Data Cowboy at Microsoft in the Azure Security data science team.

Hyrum holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is a former Principal architect at Microsoft and co-found er of CAMLIS. Today Hyrum is CTO of Robust Intelligence.

Ram Shanker and Hyrum introduce adversarial machine learning, the dedicated field launching cyber attacks upon AI. While this is a most timely book to release, it should have been published twenty years ago so the impact could be well understood.

Perhaps it will clash with Wall Street and Silicon Valley desire to overcome slumping known PC sales and be the spark to drive billions in revenue for a new class of technology companies while reinforcing the market cap of established companies. So, let the voice of Ram Shanker and Hyrum, who attack AI machines for a living provide deep insights. In fact, most of us do not consider the civil liberty implications of attacking AI systems.

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Artificial Intelligence Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Everyday Chaos

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date November 4, 2023

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility by David Weinberger.

David holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He is widely published including Wired, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

He is Co-Director of Harvard Library’s Innovation Lab; Writer-in-residence at a Google AI lab; Senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; and a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department.

David previously authored The Cluetrain Manifesto, Everything is Miscellaneous, and Too Big to Know. Having read these books, David’s writing both inspirational and spot on regarding how internet technologies are shifting the global world. My only regret is not reading this book the day it hit newsstands. And based upon his previous works, will not make that mistake moving forward.

Everyday Chaos is focusing on artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and a very dynamic internet. Rolling into a somewhat staggering force, these technologies are certainly revealing how complex the world is today. Perhaps the most important message, we now find ourselves facing a digital transformation more unpredictable even by those who created the technologies.

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Artificial Intelligence Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Artificial Intelligence Basics

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date October 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction by Tom Taulli. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. Tom has written for BusinessWeek, TechWeb, Bloomberg and AI articles for Forbes.

With Artificial intelligence and subsets continuing to grow in capabilities and deployments, I am always pleased to find titles to share with organizational leaders to bring them up to speed on AI.

Tom is accurate in sharing that AI has in fact rapidly expanded beyond smart speakers and digital assistants to become a general-purpose technology. As such this has been echoing across virtually all industries and markets.

So understanding AI’s possibilities for your organization is more critical today. In less than six months, OpenAI launched Generative AI service ChatGPT into the stratosphere. But it also arrives with much needed safety measures.

Artificial intelligence touches nearly every part of your day. While you may initially assume that technology such as smart speakers and digital assistants are the extent of it, AI has in fact rapidly become a general-purpose technology, reverberating across industries including transportation, healthcare, education, government, financial services, use to identify a few. In our modern era, an understanding of AI and its possibilities for your organization is essential for growth and success in a fast changing and competitive marketplace.

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Artificial Intelligence Education Innovation Reading

Latest Read: Artificial Intelligence in Practice:

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date September 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How 50 Successful Companies Used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems by Bernard Marr. He holds degrees in business, engineering and information technology from the University of Cambridge and Cranfield School of Management.

Today, Bernard also enjoys teaching for Oxford University, Warwick Business School, the Irish Management Institute, and the and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is also a contributor to Forbes. Bernard is focusing on strategy, business performance, digital transformations, and AI.

He has certainly advised many of the world’s most recognized brands including: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca, The Bank of England, BP, NVIDIA, Cisco, DHL, IBM, HPE, Ericsson, Jaguar Land Rover, Mars, The Ministry of Defense, NATO, The Home Office, NHS, Oracle, T-Mobile, Toyota, The Royal Air Force, Shell, The United Nations, Walgreens, and Walmart.

Bernard has written 20 books having been recognized with the 2022 Business Book of the Year award, the CMI Management Book of the Year award, the Axiom book award and the WHSmith best business book award. I enjoyed reading one of his previous books, Big Data: Using smart big data analytics and metrics to make better decisions and improve performance.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are continuing to be cited as the most important trend in society today. However, rather than list where AI is deployed, it would be more important to understand how AI was deployed. Bernard is providing comprehensive overviews, including technical details as key learning summaries for each case study.

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