Build Your Own AI
Real World Projects with Open Source AI
Will be published approx. on 14. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-7185-0462-2 (ISBN)
Description
Build Your Own AI is your practical, creative guide to building ethical and impactful AI systems using today's most powerful open-source tools. Clear, jargon-free explanations will walk you through libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras as you build classifiers, character predictors, and digit recognizers. You'll also explore advanced topics like MLOps, AI security, and responsible AI development, putting tools such as Hugging Face, LangChain, CrewAI, ANOVA, and SHAP into action. Through hands-on projects like predicting superhero feats, generating story plotlines, and crafting and detecting deepfakes, you'll combine technical insight with imaginative exploration. You'll even build a trivia game powered by agentic bots using top-tier models like LLaMA, Whisper, and Stable Diffusion. By the end, you'll know how to build and deploy AI systems and be ready to confidently join the global open-source AI movement. Walk through that door today with Build Your Own AI.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
368 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7185-0462-2 (9781718504622)
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Jerry Cuomo is a retired IBM Fellow with more than 38 years' experience as a software innovator and open-source advocate. He currently lectures at North Carolina State University and leads Wild Ducks, LLC, where he consults, develops, and secures intellectual property in trustworthy AI, blockchain, and cybersecurity.
Jerry holds more than 100 U.S. patents. Among his most notable is the "Someone is typing..." indicator, now used billions of times daily in instant messaging.
Jerry is the author of the Think series, which includes Think Blockchain and Think Artificial Intelligence as well as co-author of Blockchain for Business and The Art of Automation.
Jose De Jesus is the CTO of AI & Automation for IBM's Technology Expert Labs and a Distinguished Architect. He has worked for IBM since 1997 and is a published author and speaker with over 30 years of experience in the industry. He currently leads the Business Automation Manager Open Edition practice for IBM's Technology Expert Labs where he strategically leads clients through the complexities of AI and automation, ranging from optimization of overarching business processes to specialized integration with watsonx technologies, and intelligent automation.
Jerry holds more than 100 U.S. patents. Among his most notable is the "Someone is typing..." indicator, now used billions of times daily in instant messaging.
Jerry is the author of the Think series, which includes Think Blockchain and Think Artificial Intelligence as well as co-author of Blockchain for Business and The Art of Automation.
Jose De Jesus is the CTO of AI & Automation for IBM's Technology Expert Labs and a Distinguished Architect. He has worked for IBM since 1997 and is a published author and speaker with over 30 years of experience in the industry. He currently leads the Business Automation Manager Open Edition practice for IBM's Technology Expert Labs where he strategically leads clients through the complexities of AI and automation, ranging from optimization of overarching business processes to specialized integration with watsonx technologies, and intelligent automation.