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Getting into A.I.

  • 10-08-2019 11:13am
    #1
    veganrun
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    I'm quite interested in learning more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and would like to maybe end up working in the health sector, somehow using that.

    I've been working in I.T. all my career and my most recent job is a software engineer in test writing web automation using Java and Selenium.

    I'm not quite sure where or how to get started in A.I though.

    Anyone here got experience working in that area?


Comments

  • #2
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Yes, AI does not exist. Machine learning however is a booming field. Go start messing around with python and various ML libs.

    It's the marketing types that keep calling it AI, not the engineers.


  • #3
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Very much the above, A.I is marketing hype, buzz words, and snake skin salesman stuff. Get going on some statistics and machine learning courses to see if you like them. I've recently done some courses on Datacamp that were OK intros.

    As an aside I'm working on a mini ML project with Python, Scikit-Learn and Jupyter notebooks, if anyone has any experience and wouldn't mind taking a look at it for comments/insights could they PM me?


  • #4
    Giblet
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    As they say, AI is Powerpoint, ML is Python.


    Go brush up on Linear regression.


  • #5
    veganrun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭veganrun


    Yeah probably should have been more specific. I know A.I. is a more general term.


  • #6
    PrzemoF
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    https://opensource.com/article/18/5/top-8-open-source-ai-technologies-machine-learning

    Pick one, find examples, run it.


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  • #7
    beans
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    The Galway Machine Learning Meetup.com group hosted an event last night about 'a pyramidal approach for designing deep neural networks and its applications'. I didn't get to attend, but user-groups such as this could be another approach you could take?


  • #8
    Talisman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Talisman


    I've recently started a one year Springboard course in Artificial Intelligence at DCU. The first semester is entirely dedicated to Statistical Data Analysis because that is the foundation. I think that came as a shock for a lot of the class. Talking to some of the students in a lab session they expected to get Machine Learning 101 on the first day. They didn't expect to need a baseline in maths and statistics.

    Next semester we get to tackle the sexier stuff: Data Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning.


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