Machine Learning with Swift

Getting Started with Machine Learning

We live in exciting times. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning  (ML) went from obscure mathematical and science fiction topics to become a part of mass culture. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others competed to become the first to give the world general AI. In November 2015, Google open sourced its ML framework with TensorFlow, which is suitable for running on supercomputers as well as smartphones, and since then has won a broad community. Shortly afterwards, other big companies followed the example. The best iOS app of 2016 (Apple Choice), viral photo editor Prisma owes its success entirely to a particular kind of ML algorithm: convolutional neural network (CNN). These systems were invented ...