Introduction to AI Club L.A.

Welcome to AI Club L.A. Podcast 2. In this podcast we will discuss Googles Colaboratory. Googles Colaboratory is a free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud. What is a Jupyter notebook environment? The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Let’s call it Colab for short. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more. We will be using Colab in this podcast. Go to https://colab.research.google.com take a look around! Open an account with your Gmail, and start kicking the tires. Watch the three-minute Colaboratory introductory video.

My name is Phillip McAbee, I'll be your host for AI Club LA. Artificial Intelligence or AI is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Some of the activities computers with artificial intelligence are designed for include: Speech recognition Learning Robotics Neural Networks Natural Language Processing Cognitive Systems Come and join us on a journey of knowledge.