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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839211539

Length 578 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

TensorFlow

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Author (1):

Denis Rothman

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence through Reinforcement Learning

2. Building a Reward Matrix – Designing Your Datasets FREE CHAPTER

3. Machine Intelligence – Evaluation Functions and Numerical Convergence

4. Optimizing Your Solutions with K-Means Clustering

5. How to Use Decision Trees to Enhance K-Means Clustering

6. Innovating AI with Google Translate

7. Optimizing Blockchains with Naive Bayes

8. Solving the XOR Problem with a Feedforward Neural Network

9. Abstract Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

10. Conceptual Representation Learning

11. Combining Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning

12. AI and the Internet of Things (IoT)

13. Visualizing Networks with TensorFlow 2.x and TensorBoard

14. Preparing the Input of Chatbots with Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

15. Setting Up a Cognitive NLP UI/CUI Chatbot

16. Improving the Emotional Intelligence Deficiencies of Chatbots

17. Genetic Algorithms in Hybrid Neural Networks

18. Neuromorphic Computing

19. Quantum Computing

20. Answers to the Questions

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Basic concepts

Before creating an agent, we'll want to have an understanding of the basic concepts.

This is not a Dialogflow course, but rather an introductory chapter to get us started on making our own NLP CUI chatbot. We'll begin by defining some key terms.

Defining NLU

NLU means natural language understanding. NLU is a subset of natural language processing (NLP). Natural language refers to the everyday language we use without having to force ourselves to learn precise words in order to obtain information from a machine.

If we had to learn a dictionary of the only words that would work with a system, it would be easier just to read a text. NLP encompasses all forms of natural language processing including NLU. Through AI, NLU has become more involved in trying to understand what a given sentence means.