The interest in AI is in a full upswing. Content is being generated at a steady pace and more people are becoming interested in the potential of AI for their every day lives, their careers and more. You are clearly one of the people interested in the topic of AI, and so it is important to point you in the direction of the most active communities for new and experienced AI enthusiasts. These forums consist of the best and latest information in the space of AI and are a necessary supplement to your interest and learning. However, some of the fora can be a little daunting to navigate at first. The purpose of this lab is to introduce you to some important communities and give you a sense of what goes on there, and how you can get the most out of it at your current skill and interest level.
However, some of these communities can be a little daunting to navigate at first. The purpose of this lab is to introduce you to one of the most important ones, give you a sense of what goes on there, and show you how to get the most out of it at your current skill level.
This lab is designed to provide your first hands-on experience with the tools and culture of modern AI development. As we discussed in the introduction, the goal is to move beyond observing AI as a concept and begin to interact with it as a tangible system that can be explored and steered. By the end of this lab, you will be able to:
An Important Note Before You Begin:
This is an introductory and exploratory lab meant to kick off the rest of the labs in this playbook. When you first visit a site like Hugging Face, you will be flooded with a whole lot of information at once. It is completely normal to have questions and even feel a bit overwhelmed. The goal here is not to understand everything, but to start building familiarity. Many of the technical concepts you see will be addressed gradually through the readings and future labs.
Hugging Face is part online community, part demo platform. If you are looking for examples of projects using the newest machine learning models, implemented by the most active and enthusiastic members of the AI community, this is the place to be.
The service also offers access to compute resources (so you can run models from within the website) and allows you to use models hosted on their platform. While this is more than a beginner might find useful initially, it is good to know that you can complete an entire project with the resources available on the Hugging Face website.