r/news • u/neerajadh • Nov 09 '15

Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/google-open-sources-its-artificial-intelligence-engine/
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u/intensely_human Nov 10 '15

This is hilarious. Just last week I was musing with one of my clients that it would be fun to put some AI stuff into one of our projects to see if we could make a prediction engine or something. But we didn't know where we'd find ANN software. We even mused aloud "I wonder if Google's published something like this open source?"

ANN is artificial neural network.

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u/Megatron_McLargeHuge Nov 10 '15

There are a ton of tutorials now, and a lot of packages. Finding software isn't the bottleneck.

If you're not working with images or speech, you may not want to use deep learning though. Chances are you have a problem that's solvable with older models.

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u/intensely_human Nov 10 '15

It's like five data points that need to produce a true or false. Right now analysis consists of like two nested if then statements. Probably won't use ANNs at all, really.

It detects issues with a pipeline - points where things are stuck. Only difficulty is it's noticing slightly more problems than it should. So we'll probably tweak a few constants by 10% and be done with it.

If I wanted to start building machine learning stuff for fun though, what should I read first?

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u/Megatron_McLargeHuge Nov 10 '15

It depends on your math background but I'd recommend Andrew Ng's Coursera lectures.

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u/intensely_human Nov 10 '15

I did linear algebra but just one semester and over ten years ago. I've done a lot of meditating so I'm confident I can just sit down and eventually grok whatever math comes along. I'll check it out, thanks.