Playing Games with AI

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Playing Games with AI

August 27, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT

Please note that this meetup will be an online event. Please use this link to access the event on August 27th. https://ibm.webex.com/ibm/j.php?MTID=m4b31976f45f29f6fa74355a190eaa3d2

In this meetup, we will learn how AI, in particular, Reinforcement Learning learns to play games. We will provide an overview of Monte Carlo methods, including prediction and control. Then see how we can use this to play the game of Black Jack with no user input. Have your Lab tops ready as this meetup is hands-on.

Presenters:
Joseph Santarcangelo, Data Scientist at IBM (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-santarcangelo-50398b136/).

Jerome Nilmeier is a developer advocate, data scientist, and member of the IBM Center for Open source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT), where he works with with open source frameworks for big data, machine learning, and deep learning as a developer advocate. He has recently published an O’Reilly Manual, “Data Science and Engineering at Enterprise Scale”, which is a great introductory text for data scientists interested in machine learning, big data, and AI..
He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, a PhD in Computational Biophysics from University of California, San Francisco, and has carried out postdoctoral research in biophysics and bioinformatics at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley and Livermore Laboratories, and at Stanford as an OpenMM Fellow. He has over 12 peer reviewed publications from his research. Just prior to joining IBM, he completed the Insight Data Engineering program in late 2014. He has been with IBM since 2015.

Azim Hirjani is a Data Scientist Intern at IBM and is pursuing a BS in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. He creates content for various IBM Data Science courses on platforms such as Coursera and Edx. He has worked as a Data Wrangler at Equifax, utilizing Hadoop and Hive to process commercial credit data. He is also interested in Real Estate and is licensed as a Real Estate Salesperson.