SkillsCast coming soon.

We are incredibly lucky this evening to have an international speaker and renowned expert, Ross Cruickshank, running an Artificial Intelligence workshop for us. Don't miss it!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are incredibly popular, but who knows how to implement them quickly?

Ross will show you how to become knowledgeable on AI and implement it briskly using the IBM Cloud.

Agenda:

18:00 Doors open

18:15 Everyone seated

18:20 All laptops set-up and ready

18:25 Introduction to Linuxing In London and the workshop

18:30 Ross Cruickshank’s AI, an easy Artificial Intelligence workshop part 1

19:25 Break

19:45 Ross Cruickshank’s AI, an easy Artificial Intelligence workshop part 2

20:25 Finish

20:30 Community slot

20:35 Free raffle

20:45 Off to Skills Matter’s bar for a soft drink.

The evening’s syllabus:

• Tour of the Watson AI API services:

  • Visual Recognition, Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Tone Analyzer, Assistant (chatbot), Translator ...
  • Set up IBM Cloud account - needed for accessing the Watson services (for free, of course)

• Hands-on with Node-RED

  • Local install (needs node.js LTS 8.x)
  • Or ready to use on the (IBM) Cloud

• Remote data access and presentation

  • Retrieve and format API data
  • Create mini website with CSS+HTML and mustache

• Twitter data analysis

  • Setup Twitter as a data source
  • Analyse tweets with Tone Analyzer
  • Chart tone trends

• Chatbot-generated responses

  • Set up simple chatbot conversation
  • Pass in particularly emotional tweets
  • Generate responses
  • Emit responses with Twitter, and Text to Speech

Prerequisites

• Participants should bring along a working laptop.

• A working browser.

• A free IBM cloud account

• Node.js LTS 8.x installed

• Node-Red installed

PS: Whilst we are finalising details, please watch this page.

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