Alberta AI Monthly Mentor Session
Alberta AI association has started a series of monthly sessions on every third Tuesday of the month to guide people, whether they have no background in Artificial Intelligence and want to learn about it or have taken few courses but want to know more and land a job in the field or consider themselves as an expert and want to meet other AI professionals, this monthly mentor session is for everyone.
On 18th August, Alberta AI association held its first monthly mentor session hosted by Dr. Lihang Ying, the President of Alberta AI, in which around 50 people attended the event. The experts in the panel guided attendees and discussed the resources available to learn and improve their knowledge of AI.
Here is the summary of the resources shared by the experts.
Beginner
If you are beginner and would like to learn about AI, you may find these links useful.
Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
Amazon’s Machine Learning University
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Intermediate
judea pearl, madelyn glymour, nicholas p. jewellcausal inference in statistics: a primer
Reinforcement Learning Specialization
THE BOOK OF WHY: THE NEW SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
Before we wrapped up, some of the attendees discussed their queries, related to the project they are working on, with the experts and after that Calvin L, who is an insurance advisor, discussed how they have deployed AI in their business.
We would like to thank all the experts on the panel for generously sharing their time and expertise and all the attendees for joining us.
If you missed the event, you can watch it on our Youtube channel here. Our next event will be on 15th of September, you can register for the session on eventbrite and don’t forget to follow Alberta AI at Eventbrite for our future events.
