The Birds & The Bees = Rubyfuza 2014

An overview of computational intelligence (AI) paradigms focusing on their practical applications, the joy of programming in metaphors (birds, bees, ants etc). I'll introduce each paradigm in {neural networks, fuzzy systems, artificial immune systems, swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation} but focus on swarm intelligence and go through examples, like, simple data clustering using ants.

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1. The Birds & The Bees Simon van Dyk @ Platform45
2. A friend of mine once asked me what my research was based on, and I said, “artificial intelligence”, only to receive back a flurry of laughter since she associated the words “artificial intelligence” with aliens. “ ” – Melissa Donaldson
3. AI is misunderstood… …so is CI.
4. > defined? CI => nil … where does it fit in?
5. AI Strong AI Weak AI “General” “Specific” New era AI Old era AI “CI” “Brute Force”
6. EC SI NN AIS FS Evolutionary Computation Swarm Intelligence Fuzzy Systems Neural Networks Artificial Immune Systems CI
7. EC SI NN AIS FS Probability
8. Swarm Intelligence
9. Swallows flock
10. Ants build
11. Ants survive
12. Emergence complexity from simplicity
13. Communication on some channel
14. Ants for data clustering
15. Cemetery Formation 1 2 3 4
16. Data Clustering 4 12 8 9 7 dataset = [d1..d2] cluster = dataset.select do |d| d.is_similar_to(cluster.centroid) end too large don’t know this
17. The Models User 123 ! data: interests: { music: [], sport: [], food: [], tech: [], } behaviour: similar() ! ...
18. The Models Ant 456 ! behaviour: perceive() act() move() ! ...
19. The Algorithm
20. The Ant
21. The Ant The Item
22. The Result!
23. ‘Picks’ 7min npr.org “how ants bury their dead” ! 2min http://indianapublicmedia.org “ants and their dead”
24. Thank you! @siefi ! sighmin/birds-and-bees ! simon@platform45.com ! ! " ! #
25. Questions? @siefi ! sighmin/birds-and-bees ! simon@platform45.com ! ! " ! #
26. fin.