The Generative AI Practitioner’s Guide


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Generative AI is revolutionizing the way organizations leverage technology to gain a competitive edge. However, as more companies experiment with and adopt AI systems, it becomes challenging for data and analytics professionals, AI practitioners, executives, technologists, and business leaders to look beyond the buzz and focus on the essential questions: Where should we begin? How do we initiate the process? What potential pitfalls should we be aware of? This TinyTechGuide offers valuable insights and practical recommendations on constructing a business case, calculating ROI, exploring real-life applications, and considering ethical implications. Crucially, it introduces five LLM patterns—author, retriever, extractor, agent, and experimental—to effectively implement GenAI systems within an organization. The Generative AI Practitioner’s Guide: How to Apply LLM Patterns for Enterprise Applications bridges critical knowledge gaps for business leaders and practitioners, equipping them with a comprehensive toolkit to define a business case and successfully deploy GenAI. In today’s rapidly evolving world, staying ahead of the competition requires a deep understanding of these five implementation patterns and the potential benefits and risks associated with GenAI. Designed for business leaders, tech experts, and IT teams, this book provides real-life examples and actionable insights into GenAI’s transformative impact on various industries. Empower your organization with a competitive edge in today’s marketplace using The Generative AI Practitioner’s Guide: How to Apply LLM Patterns for Enterprise Applications. Remember, it’s not the tech that’s tiny, just the book!™




The Executive Guide to Artificial Intelligence


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This book takes a pragmatic and hype–free approach to explaining artificial intelligence and how it can be utilised by businesses today. At the core of the book is a framework, developed by the author, which describes in non–technical language the eight core capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Each of these capabilities, ranging from image recognition, through natural language processing, to prediction, is explained using real–life examples and how they can be applied in a business environment. It will include interviews with executives who have successfully implemented AI as well as CEOs from AI vendors and consultancies. AI is one of the most talked about technologies in business today. It has the ability to deliver step–change benefits to organisations and enables forward–thinking CEOs to rethink their business models or create completely new businesses. But most of the real value of AI is hidden behind marketing hyperbole, confusing terminology, inflated expectations and dire warnings of ‘robot overlords’. Any business executive that wants to know how to exploit AI in their business today is left confused and frustrated. As an advisor in Artificial Intelligence, Andrew Burgess regularly comes face–to–face with business executives who are struggling to cut through the hype that surrounds AI. The knowledge and experience he has gained in advising them, as well as working as a strategic advisor to AI vendors and consultancies, has provided him with the skills to help business executives understand what AI is and how they can exploit its many benefits. Through the distilled knowledge included in this book business leaders will be able to take full advantage of this most disruptive of technologies and create substantial competitive advantage for their companies.




Artificial Intelligence


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“After reading Mitchell’s guide, you’ll know what you don’t know and what other people don’t know, even though they claim to know it. And that’s invaluable." –The New York Times A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals AI’s turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears surrounding it. In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent—really—are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant models of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought underpinning recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts such as Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the modern classic Gödel, Escher, Bach, who explains why he is “terrified” about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between the hype and the actual achievements in AI, providing a clear sense of what the field has accomplished and how much further it has to go. Interweaving stories about the science of AI and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and accessible accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in the field, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations. This frank, lively book is an indispensable guide to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” intelligence, and its impact on the future for us all.




Deep Learning


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An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives. “Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject.” —Elon Musk, cochair of OpenAI; cofounder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human computer operator to formally specify all the knowledge that the computer needs. The hierarchy of concepts allows the computer to learn complicated concepts by building them out of simpler ones; a graph of these hierarchies would be many layers deep. This book introduces a broad range of topics in deep learning. The text offers mathematical and conceptual background, covering relevant concepts in linear algebra, probability theory and information theory, numerical computation, and machine learning. It describes deep learning techniques used by practitioners in industry, including deep feedforward networks, regularization, optimization algorithms, convolutional networks, sequence modeling, and practical methodology; and it surveys such applications as natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, online recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and videogames. Finally, the book offers research perspectives, covering such theoretical topics as linear factor models, autoencoders, representation learning, structured probabilistic models, Monte Carlo methods, the partition function, approximate inference, and deep generative models. Deep Learning can be used by undergraduate or graduate students planning careers in either industry or research, and by software engineers who want to begin using deep learning in their products or platforms. A website offers supplementary material for both readers and instructors.




Generative Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices


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The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about significant ethical challenges. As machines become more adept at creating human-like content, concerns about misuse, bias, privacy, and accountability have emerged. Without clear guidelines and regulations, there is a risk of unethical use, such as creating deepfake videos or disseminating misinformation, which could have severe societal consequences. Additionally, questions about intellectual property rights and the ownership of AI-generated creations still need to be solved, further complicating the ethical landscape. The book, Generative Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices, comprehensively solves these ethical challenges. By providing insights into the historical development and key milestones of Generative AI, the book lays a foundation for understanding its complex ethical implications. It examines existing ethical frameworks and proposes new ones tailored to AI's unique characteristics, helping readers apply traditional ethics to AI development and deployment.




Applied Artificial Intelligence


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This bestselling book gives business leaders and executives a foundational education on how to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to deliver ROI for your business.




Deep Learning Illustrated


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"The authors’ clear visual style provides a comprehensive look at what’s currently possible with artificial neural networks as well as a glimpse of the magic that’s to come." – Tim Urban, author of Wait But Why Fully Practical, Insightful Guide to Modern Deep Learning Deep learning is transforming software, facilitating powerful new artificial intelligence capabilities, and driving unprecedented algorithm performance. Deep Learning Illustrated is uniquely intuitive and offers a complete introduction to the discipline’s techniques. Packed with full-color figures and easy-to-follow code, it sweeps away the complexity of building deep learning models, making the subject approachable and fun to learn. World-class instructor and practitioner Jon Krohn–with visionary content from Grant Beyleveld and beautiful illustrations by Aglaé Bassens–presents straightforward analogies to explain what deep learning is, why it has become so popular, and how it relates to other machine learning approaches. Krohn has created a practical reference and tutorial for developers, data scientists, researchers, analysts, and students who want to start applying it. He illuminates theory with hands-on Python code in accompanying Jupyter notebooks. To help you progress quickly, he focuses on the versatile deep learning library Keras to nimbly construct efficient TensorFlow models; PyTorch, the leading alternative library, is also covered. You’ll gain a pragmatic understanding of all major deep learning approaches and their uses in applications ranging from machine vision and natural language processing to image generation and game-playing algorithms. Discover what makes deep learning systems unique, and the implications for practitioners Explore new tools that make deep learning models easier to build, use, and improve Master essential theory: artificial neurons, training, optimization, convolutional nets, recurrent nets, generative adversarial networks (GANs), deep reinforcement learning, and more Walk through building interactive deep learning applications, and move forward with your own artificial intelligence projects Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.




The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI with Dialogflow and Google Cloud


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Build enterprise chatbots for web, social media, voice assistants, IoT, and telephony contact centers with Google's Dialogflow conversational AI technology. This book will explain how to get started with conversational AI using Google and how enterprise users can use Dialogflow as part of Google Cloud. It will cover the core concepts such as Dialogflow essentials, deploying chatbots on web and social media channels, and building voice agents including advanced tips and tricks such as intents, entities, and working with context. The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI with Dialogflow and Google Cloud also explains how to build multilingual chatbots, orchestrate sub chatbots into a bigger conversational platform, use virtual agent analytics with popular tools, such as BigQuery or Chatbase, and build voice bots. It concludes with coverage of more advanced use cases, such as building fulfillment functionality, building your own integrations, securing your chatbots, and building your own voice platform with the Dialogflow SDK and other Google Cloud machine learning APIs. After reading this book, you will understand how to build cross-channel enterprise bots with popular Google tools such as Dialogflow, Google Cloud AI, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Chatbase. ​​What You Will Learn Discover Dialogflow, Dialogflow Essentials, Dialogflow CX, and how machine learning is used Create Dialogflow projects for individuals and enterprise usage Work with Dialogflow essential concepts such as intents, entities, custom entities, system entities, composites, and how to track context Build bots quickly using prebuilt agents, small talk modules, and FAQ knowledge bases Use Dialogflow for an out-of-the-box agent review Deploy text conversational UIs for web and social media channels Build voice agents for voice assistants, phone gateways, and contact centers Create multilingual chatbots Orchestrate many sub-chatbots to build a bigger conversational platform Use chatbot analytics and test the quality of your Dialogflow agent See the new Dialogflow CX concepts, how Dialogflow CX fits in, and what’s different in Dialogflow CX Who This Book Is For Everyone interested in building chatbots for web, social media, voice assistants, or contact centers using Google’s conversational AI/cloud technology.




Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch


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Deep learning is often viewed as the exclusive domain of math PhDs and big tech companies. But as this hands-on guide demonstrates, programmers comfortable with Python can achieve impressive results in deep learning with little math background, small amounts of data, and minimal code. How? With fastai, the first library to provide a consistent interface to the most frequently used deep learning applications. Authors Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger, the creators of fastai, show you how to train a model on a wide range of tasks using fastai and PyTorch. You’ll also dive progressively further into deep learning theory to gain a complete understanding of the algorithms behind the scenes. Train models in computer vision, natural language processing, tabular data, and collaborative filtering Learn the latest deep learning techniques that matter most in practice Improve accuracy, speed, and reliability by understanding how deep learning models work Discover how to turn your models into web applications Implement deep learning algorithms from scratch Consider the ethical implications of your work Gain insight from the foreword by PyTorch cofounder, Soumith Chintala




Artificial Intelligence and Human Performance in Transportation


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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a major technological advancement in the 21st century. With its influence spreading to all aspects of our lives and the engineering sector, establishing well-defined objectives is crucial for successfully integrating AI in the field of transportation. This book presents different ways of adopting emerging technologies in transportation operations, including security, safety, online training, and autonomous vehicle operations on land, sea, and air. This guide is a dynamic resource for senior management and decision-makers, with essential practical advice distilled from the expertise of specialists in the field. It addresses the most critical issues facing transportation service providers in adopting AI and investigates the relationship between the human operator and the technology to navigate what is and is not feasible or impossible. Case studies of actual implementation provide context to common scenarios in the transportation sector. This book will serve the reader as the starting point for practical questions regarding the deployment and safety assurance of new and emergent technologies in the transportation domains. Artificial Intelligence and Human Performance in Transportation is a beneficial read for professionals in the fields of Human Factors, Engineering (Aviation, Maritime and Land), Logistics, Manufacturing, Accident Investigation and Safety, Cybersecurity and Human Resources.