Overview

The knowledge I have gained from building Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech is directly applicable to raising my toddler. Not only does it help me teach him more effectively, but it also helps me understand why he does naughty things, which I had previously thought he did merely for the sake of torturing us. As I explore such ideas in this blog post, I will also give a brief overview of relevant AI projects to help illustrate my analogy.

My AI Related Work

I have been working in AI for more than five years, and at the risk of sounding creepy, my love of AI is still as strong as it was that first day when I discovered that my image-classification model, Cyclops, was able to automatically categorise photos of cars taken at 27 different angles (the front, side, rear, dashboard, wheels and so on) with 97.2% accuracy.

AI tech provides solutions to problems you could not have solved before by giving you a completely new approach. Rather than dictating every single instruction with if-else statements five levels deep, you simply allow the machine to learn from sets of inputs and expected outputs. Although a fully-trained AI model still consists of hundreds or even thousands of if-else statements, they are automatically created during training, so we do not need to pull our hair out designing and maintaining them. We simply retrain the model with new datasets when there are changes in requirements. Your data is the algorithm, which, simply put, is quite elegant.

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