Ai in The Wild

The document introduces a bootcamp for AI enthusiasts and practitioners to gain hands-on experience building real-world AI applications in an open-source environment. The bootcamp aims to provide a holistic learning experience missing from many courses by teaching end-to-end project deployment. Students will work collaboratively to develop applications that solve local problems using technologies like computer vision and natural language processing. Eligible second and third year engineering students will receive remuneration based on the outcomes of the projects they contribute to, not just their learning of concepts.

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Ai in The Wild

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Bootcamp: AI in the Wild.

Resp ,
It is my pleasure to introduce you to our group bootcamp for AI enthusiasts and
practitioners.
Open source movement has revolutionized the way we look at software and
hardware systems. Ever since the emergence of powerful GPUs, the market has
taken a plunge toward the untapped potential of learning from large data sources. It
has flooded the market with paid as well as unpaid MOOCs over platforms like
Udacity, Stanford and MIT OCW, etc. As a member of educational institute and a
research scholar, you would have surely noticed it. These courses generally tend to
serve the purpose of learning core ideas without having to deep-dive into their
intricacies. They are organized in a way so as to lay the groundwork for other
large-scale extensions to these apparent miniature concepts.

This learning methodology focuses on imparting knowledge without any barrier

while also attempting to give the students a false sense of accomplishment. This
ease of learning comes at a cost! It makes us more biased toward ‘structured’
examples. I repeat, structured. Let's take the example of basic image categorization
with MNIST or CIFAR datasets. It is made a castle that is meant to be breached
that it is definitely not. While solving these problems is a prerequisite to grasp the
underlying concepts but, at the same time, it is not enough for problems is the
wild! We skip many important data building blocks since the data provided with
these so-called capstone exercises is sufficient for these models to learn. The
process of collecting data is already hand-crafted by experts while model
architectures are well defined. Even other problems like security and integrity for
the datasets are also solved/omitted. Hardware! Oh let us not get started over that
one.

Students find it hard to come across a holistic learning framework that gives them
the real picture as to what it takes to be good AI engineers. End to end project
deployment experience is mostly missing in the college environments. For
instance, let is take the problems of using de-focused images for vision
applications or using it in rainy seasons with droplets obscuring view or trying to
build applications on speech and text to process variable length sequences from
local dialects. Can we answer the following questions after the course completion–
Do we even have the right data for any real-world problem? – Are we really
building a face based attendance systems in our colleges even after face based
screen locks are available all around us? The answer is sadly no.

The missing holistic experience for the students is what we intend to bridge with
our offering. We intend to impart the complete knowledge with the prospective
students while also ensuring that they make some cool applications. Everything
done with us will be open source and targeted towards solving real world problems
around us like crowd controlling, parking lot management with camera in Indore
city, face attendance system for your campus, building a bot which brings you food
while you enjoy Netflix or any other cool idea which might interest the students.
We want to keep the contribute something worthwhile rather than stacking up
same tutorial code and notebooks. This is a collaborative effort to learn and build
things which change the world around you.

The bootcamp for students which we are presenting an opportunities for students to
actively participate in building AI related software/hardware applications in an
open source environment.

Eligibility to apply: Students must be from Second or Third year Engineering

student with knowledge of any one programming language, Candidate must be
ready to learn advanced mathematics, probability and statistics. Students who are
very much into web development are not encouraged to apply since our projects
are currently based more on AI and not on UI.

Remuneration: Based on product application outcomes and not on learning

concepts.
Interested candidates can fill up google form in link below. It has some questions
which we will use to access applicants. Don’t worry grades are not at all a filtering
criterion. In case we get too many applications we may host a small coding
competition/ Math assignment / Online Interview.
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We would start from right from the AI fundamentals, selection of camera/cameras

configuration, shortlisting software frameworks, writing application, training it
over distributed computing and parallel processing to web deployment. They can
be a part of our team after clearing certain selection criterion after which they will
be able to participate in our projects which they may like or they can bring forth
their own ideas and interested members will join.

Humans have done wonders with collaborative efforts. Single human cannot get to
moon on his own. It takes thousand laborious hands to get the big job done. The art
of collaboration is often undervalued in our system.. While doing a large problem
one can any day may lose track, feel overwhelmed by the scope of project,
dejected by failures or even become lethargic .Sometimes we lack right practices
and knowledge (the one beyond stack overflow which comes after sacrificing your
good night sleep ). Passion and persistence can conquer everything.