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Monday, January 16, 2023

OpenAI’s ChatGPT - Generative AI for Such a Time As This

Colleagues, according to CNET’s article (December 2023) “There's a new AI bot in town: ChatGPT, and even if you're not into artificial intelligence, you'd better pay attention.” Moreover, “It's a big deal. The tool seems pretty knowledgeable in areas where there's good training data for it to learn from. It's not omniscient or smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than a million people were trying out ChatGPT.” ChatGPT can write blog posts, articles and even create computer programs. This chatbot is still in its infancy. However, as ChatGPT scans more Internet content and expands its knowledge base, the applications for consumers and professionals alike appear almost limitless.

With Generative AI’s astounding potential it is time for software developers and engineers to get training and certified. Here are our top 4 training program recommendations for 2023. First is Contact Center AI: Conversational Design Fundamentals you will learn to design customer conversational solutions using Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI). You will be introduced to CCAI and its three pillars (Dialogflow, Agent Assist, and Insights), and the concepts behind conversational experiences and how the study of them influences the design of your virtual agent. After taking this course you will be prepared to take your virtual agent design to the next level of intelligent conversation. This is a beginner course, intended for learners with the following types of roles: Conversational designers: Designs the user experience of a virtual assistant. Translates the brand's business requirements into natural dialog flows. Citizen developers: Creates new business applications for consumption by others using high level development and runtime environments. Software developers: Codes computer software in a programming language (e.g., C++, Python, Javascript) and often using an SDK/API. Operations specialists: Monitors system operations and troubleshoots problems. Installs, supports, and maintains network and system tools. Second is Build Basic Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Understand the intuition behind the fundamental components of GANs - Explore and implement multiple GAN architectures - Build conditional GANs capable of generating examples from determined categories Build a comprehensive knowledge base and gain hands-on experience in GANs. Train your own model using PyTorch, use it to create images, and evaluate a variety of advanced GANs. This Specialization provides an accessible pathway for all levels of learners looking to break into the GANs space or apply GANs to their own projects, even without prior familiarity with advanced math and machine learning research. Next is Machine Vision, GANs, and Deep Reinforcement Learning. Modern machine vision involves automated systems outperforming humans on image recognition, object detection, and image segmentation tasks. Generative Adversarial Networks cast two Deep Learning networks against each other in a “forger-detective” relationship, enabling the fabrication of stunning, photorealistic images with flexible, user-specifiable elements. Deep Reinforcement Learning has produced equally surprising advances, including the bulk of the most widely-publicized “artificial intelligence” breakthroughs. Deep RL involves training an “agent” to become adept in given “environments,” enabling algorithms to meet or surpass human-level performance on a diverse range of complex challenges, including Atari video games, the board game Go, and subtle hand-manipulation tasks. Throughout these lessons, essential theory is brought to life with intuitive explanations and interactive, hands-on Jupyter notebook demos. Examples feature Python and straightforward Keras layers in TensorFlow 2, the most popular Deep Learning library. And fourth, Apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Explore the applications of GANs and examine them wrt data augmentation, privacy, and anonymity - Leverage the image-to-image translation framework and identify applications to modalities beyond images - Implement Pix2Pix, a paired image-to-image translation GAN, to adapt satellite images into map routes (and vice versa) - Compare paired image-to-image translation to unpaired image-to-image translation and identify how their key difference necessitates different GAN architectures - Implement CycleGAN, an unpaired image-to-image translation model, to adapt horses to zebras (and vice versa) with two GANs in one The DeepLearning.AI Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization provides an exciting introduction to image generation with GANs, charting a path from foundational concepts to advanced techniques through an easy-to-understand approach. It also covers social implications, including bias in ML and the ways to detect it, privacy preservation, and more. Build a comprehensive knowledge base and gain hands-on experience in GANs. Train your own model using PyTorch, use it to create images, and evaluate a variety of advanced GANs. This Specialization provides an accessible pathway for all levels of learners looking to break into the GANs space or apply GANs to their own projects, even without prior familiarity with advanced math and machine learning research.


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Monday, January 9, 2023

Machine Learning in Trading and Finance

Colleagues, the Machine Learning in Trading and Finance program from the New York Institute of Finance and Google Cloud will equip you in Quantitative trading, pairs trading, and momentum trading. You will be able to design basic quantitative trading strategies, build machine learning models using Keras and TensorFlow, build a pair trading strategy prediction model and back test it, and build a momentum-based trading model and back test it. You should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for machine learning, such as Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, and Pandas.By the end of the Specialization, you'll understand how to use the capabilities of Google Cloud to develop and deploy serverless, scalable, deep learning, and reinforcement learning models to create trading strategies that can update and train themselves. As a challenge, you're invited to apply the concepts of Reinforcement Learning to use cases in Trading.  This program is intended for those who have an understanding of the foundations of Machine Learning at an intermediate level. To successfully complete the exercises within the program, you should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for Machine Learning, such as Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, and Pandas; a solid background in ML and statistics (including regression, classification, and basic statistical concepts) and basic knowledge of financial markets (equities, bonds, derivatives, market structure, and hedging). Experience with SQL is recommended.

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Monday, January 2, 2023

Top 3 Machine Learning Training Programs for 2023

Colleagues, GlassDoor estimate the average US salary for Machine Learning Engineers at $130,794. Keep your ML skillset up-to-date and earn top dollar for your high demand skills. Here are our top 3 training recommendations for a competitive advantage in 2023. First, is the Machine Learning Engineer program from Udacity. Learn the data science and machine learning skills required to build and deploy machine learning models in production using Amazon SageMaker. The program offers an Introduction to Machine Learning, Developing Your First ML Workflow, Deep Learning Topics within Computer Vision and NLP, Operationalizing Machine Learning Projects on SageMaker and Capstone Project: Inventory Monitoring at Distribution Centers. Second is IBM’s Advanced Machine Learning and Signal Processing training. Access to valuable insights into Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Models used by experts in many field relevant disciplines. We’ll learn about the fundamentals of Linear Algebra to understand how machine learning modes work. Then we introduce the most popular Machine Learning Frameworks for python: Scikit-Learn and SparkML. And third is the Machine Learning Engineering Career Track Program from Springboard. Deploy ML Algorithms and build your own portfolio. More than 50% of the Springboard curriculum is focused on production engineering skills. In this course, you'll design a machine learning/deep learning system, build a prototype and deploy a running application that can be accessed via API or web service.  

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2023: Top 3 R Programming Courses for Career Growth

Colleagues, ZipRecruiter estimates the average US salary for an R Developer is $123,850. Here are our top 3 training programs for developers seeking career and income growth. First up is R Programming. Learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis. You will learn how to install and configure software necessary for a statistical programming environment and describe generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in a high-level statistical language. The course covers practical issues in statistical computing which includes programming in R, reading data into R, accessing R packages, writing R functions, debugging, profiling R code, and organizing and commenting R code. Next is Programming for Data Science in R. Master the  fundamentals required for a career in data science. By the end of the program, you will be able to use R, SQL, Command Line, and Git. Training modules with hands-on labs include: 1) IIntroduction to SQL - learn SQL fundamentals such as JOINs, Aggregations, and Subqueries. Learn how to use SQL to answer complex business problems (Project: Investigate a Database), 2) Introduction to R Programming - learn R programming fundamentals such as data structures, variables, loops, and functions. Learn to visualize data in the popular data visualization library ggplot2 (Project: Explore US Bikeshare Data), and 3) Introduction to Version Control - use version control and share your work with other people in the data science industry (Project: Post your work on Github). And third, Advanced R Programming. Gain skills in functional programming in R, robust error handling, object oriented programming, profiling and benchmarking, debugging, and proper design of functions. Upon completing this course you will be able to identify and abstract common data analysis tasks and to encapsulate them in user-facing functions. 

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Monday, December 19, 2022

Data Structures, Algorithms and Machine Learning Optimization

Colleagues, the Data Structures, Algorithms, and Machine Learning Optimization equips you to to use "Big O" notation to characterize the time efficiency and space efficiency of a given algorithm, enabling you to select or devise the most sensible approach for tackling a particular machine learning problem with the hardware resources available to you, get acquainted with the entire range of the most widely-used Python data structures, including list-, dictionary-, tree-, and graph-based structures, develop a working understanding of all of the essential algorithms for working with data, including those for searching, sorting, hashing, and traversing, discover how the statistical and machine learning approaches to optimization differ, and why you would select one or the other for a given problem you're solving, understand exactly how the extremely versatile (stochastic) gradient descent optimization algorithm works and how to apply it and learn "fancy" optimizers that are available for advanced machine learning approaches (e.g., deep learning) and when you should consider using them. Training modules include: 1) Data Structures and Algorithms, 2) "Big O" Notation, 3) List-Based Data Structures, 4) Searching and Sorting, 5) Sets and Hashing, 6) Trees, 7) Graphs, 8) Machine Learning Optimization, and 9) Fancy Deep Learning Optimizers. 

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Monday, December 12, 2022

Top 3 strategies for Machine Learning career success

Colleagues Fortune Business Insights projects total Machine Learning market growth through 2029 with a 38.8% CAGR .Glassdoor estimates the average salary for a Machine Learning Engineer at $122,963 USD. First, Get Certified: A high quality cert from a reputable vendor or professional association may boost your income by 5%-10%. Our top recommendation is Python Machine Learning Certification Training using Python that equips you with various machine learning algorithms such as regression, clustering, decision trees, random forest, Naïve Bayes, and Q-Learning. Next is AWS Certified Machine Learning - AWS Machine Learning-Specialty (ML-S) Certification exam, AWS Exploratory Data Analysis covers topics including data visualization, descriptive statistics, and dimension reduction and includes information on relevant AWS services, Machine Learning Modeling. Finally is the Machine Learning Engineer program that teaches you the data science and machine learning skills required to build and deploy machine learning models in production using Amazon SageMaker, Deep Learning Topics within Computer Vision and NLP, Developing Your First ML Workflow, Operationalizing Machine Learning Projects, and a Capstone Project - Inventory Monitoring at Distribution Centers, Second, Get Published. Write a 1-2 page article on Best Practices or Tech Trends for Medium, LinkedIn Articles or Technology.org. Third, Get Connected. Subscribe to the Data School channel on YouTube (200k members). Join Reddit’s Machine Learning group (2.5m members. Then register for the Wolfram Machine Learning discussion forum.

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Data Science Roadmapping - Unlocking value in Data-Driven Organizations

CIO & COOs, ScienceDirect’s article “Data Science Roadmapping: An Architectural Framework for Facilitating Transformation Towards a Data-Driven Organization” (January 2022) states that “Leveraging data science can enable businesses to exploit data for competitive advantage by generating valuable insights. However, many industries cannot effectively incorporate data science into their business processes, as there is no comprehensive approach that allows strategic planning for organization-wide data science efforts and data assets. Accordingly, this study explores the Data Science Roadmapping (DSR) to guide organizations in aligning their business strategies with data-related, technological, and organizational resources … The results indicate that the framework facilitates DSR initiatives by creating a comprehensive roadmap capturing strategy, data, technology, and organizational perspectives. “

Accordingly, the new Data Science - Career Transformation Guide (2022 v2) includes valuable resources that enable CIOs and COOs you to upskill your teams and adopt a DSR strategy - Salaries (demand and growth), Certifications and Training programs, Publications and Portals along with Professional Communities and Networking forums. This guide focuses on Data Science, Big Data, Analytics, Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks along with the tools and technologies to perform these functions including Python, R, Probability and Statistics, Google BigQuery, SQL, Hadoop and Tableau. The Global Knowledge 2021 IT Salary Survey ranks Google Certified Professional Data Engineer $171,749 USD #1 out of all certifications. Indeed.com lists some 599,779+ Data Scientist positions in the United States alone. Our three-fold career advancement strategy is to Get Certified, Get Published and Get Connected. 

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Python, R, TensorFlow & PyTorch - Career Transformation Guide

Dev colleagues, the new Python, R, TensorFlow and PyTorch  - Career Transformation Guide includes valuable information that enables you to accelerate your career growth and income potential - Career opportunities, Salaries (demand and growth), Certifications and Training programs, Publications and Portals along with Professional Forums and Communities. The Certification and Training programs are categorized by Python, R, TensorFlow and PyTorch. The average salary for Python Developers in the US is $111,225 according to CareerFoundry. Salary.com reports the media salary for Python Developers across the US is $95,120 USD. For Python Developers with formal training and expertise in TensorFlow and/or PyTorch mathematical libraries AIA projects an additional 3%-5%+ positive income delta is quite realistic. Therefore, the Artificial Intelligence Academy highly recommends that Python Developers also acquire TensorFlow and/or PyTorch training and certification. Analytics Insight project demand for Python developers to rank #1 among all programming languages in 2023.

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Guide to ChatGPT, Embeddings, and Other Large Language Models (LLMs)

Colleagues, the Quick Guide to ChatGPT, Embeddings, and Other Large Language Models (LLMs) training includes a quick-start guide for the us...