Although it's a new complex area, there are already lots of great resources available if you'd like to learn more about AI. Here's some I found particularly interesting. 


RESOURCES

If you have half an hour and want a good intro to AI from Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm Andressen Horowitz, check out: https://a16z.com/2016/06/10/ai-deep-learning-machines/

 

Then consider their AI Playbook which offers some useful guidance on using AI:

http://aiplaybook.a16z.com/

 

Good overview of DL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-deep-learning-everything-you-need-to-know/

 

McKinsey overview of AI:

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/an-executives-guide-to-ai

 

A nice short visual intro to ML Machine Learning: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

 

An excellent AI overview:

https://medium.com/mmc-writes/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-a-primer-on-artificial-intelligence-ai-ff5e7fffcae1

 

Courses on AI

Machine Learning by Professor Andrew Ng on Coursera ($75 for certificate - 19 Hours)

Google Machine Learning Crash Course (Free - 15 Hours)

Bloomberg Foundations of Machine Learning Course with over 30 YouTube lectures (Free):

https://bloomberg.github.io/foml/#home

 

Online Services

https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/ai-platform/

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/

 

Downloads to Try

https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/

 

Downloads for Developers Only

You need to be a developer to try this one:

 

Build a simple Android app for Image Recognition with Tensorflow

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/tensorflow-for-poets/index.html#0

 

Other things to try

If you’re not a developer but would like to try to build your own speech recognition or computer vision projects, try these kits from Google: https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/


Interesting Links

A thought-provoking Speculative Design exercise from Google:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy

 

Video of robot picker in a grocery warehouse:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-42158043/ocado-robot-picks-up-and-packs-supermarket-goods

 

An excellent resource on AI vs Human performance across multiple areas: https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics

 

The challenges of Designing for Voice Interactions:

https://design.google/library/conversation-design-speaking-same-language/

 

More details on data quality and bias:

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/fairness-overview/

https://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discrimination-in-ml/

https://cloud.google.com/inclusive-ml/

The excellent annual Kleiner Perkins Internet Trends Report supplied many graphs referenced in the book