AI Saturdays Uyo Chapter: #meetup 1
We held our first super, exciting meetup on the 3rd Feb. 2018.
Although the turn up was low, the few people that came around were really excited about the meetup. It was more of an introductory part as most of them were not familiar with the phrase Artificial Intelligence (AI).
We took time to give an intuitive talk on AI, AI tool box .That is, the basic software needed to get started with AI. Topics like jupyter notebook, anaconda etc were covered in details. This software was also given to some of the participant who did not have it.
The aim of the section was to carry along those who have no experienced at all with AI. This section lasted for one hour thirty minutes and was facilitated by Wils Wilson.
Session one, Practical Deep Learning for Coders by fast.ai was also introduced. We watched the videos together which briefly gave an overview of everything that will be done through out the whole course.
We also learnt how to build a simple convolutional neural network that classify between dog and cat using fast.ai framework. At this point the frame work was not fully understood but we believe with time it will be understood.This was all we did in our first meetup as we were expecting more participant in our next meet and also did not want it to be boring.
In conclusion the participant where very exited and also very thankful to nature.ai for the beautiful opportunity to learn for free. I will like to say thank you to Jude Ben and Wils Wilson my fellow ambassador who also make the day any the entire AI Saturdays Uyo chapter a success. Thank you for your time.
