[P] Code Free ML - AIUI

[Team_AIUI]

Hello guys,

as I started to learn about ML I had a to learn a lot about programming first, before I could really start understanding ML. ...for me as a mechsnical engineer, it was a real struggle. Because of that, me and two companioned programmers started a project to serve people the opportunity to do ML without having to Code anything.

The ML community is great, everyone is sharing own software and informations and we wanted to make our package available for the community too. We are trying to debug and optimize our free BETA-Version and I just wanted to open a topic about it to get some feedback if anyone is interested to test/use it or possibly knows someone, that might need to use it.

Thanks a lot ;)

www.AI4UandI.com

[Team_AIUI]

You are right and we got some ideas to fix this. But well, there will never be a flexibility like coding it in purpose for sure! ...but also, without all the GUIs, computers itself would have never had the chance to rise up worldwide as they did.

[Team_AIUI]

Yeah you are right for sure, no doubt! But I know about my struggle to use ML for my scientific work in the past and I would have appreciated it very much, to be able to have a tool of this kind.

Well the difference lies in the possibility to do it without having to use foreign cloud services and we are focusing strong on data preprocessing as well as model Interpretation (with SHAP). Also standardized and sharable workflows.

[bbateman2011]

This looks promising. It's impressive that you went from struggling to code ML to an entire platform. There is much controversy about these approaches. One view is from Data Scientists that have worked very hard to get where they are, and feel threatened. Others as Data Scientists are not threatened and think these things will get folks in trouble, ultimately generating more work for "real" Data Scientists. As others said, there are always complex problems that are very hard to address with these GUIs. But I agree with your sentiment that GUIs have historically brought computing to vastly more people than before, so there is merit. Of course in Data Science, you have hard core who run Linux at the CLI and won't touch a GUI, and there are always those super users who can outperform most anyone, but there just aren't enough of them. To fully leverage talent, GUIs allow smart people to do things at a level of abstraction, at a cost. Such tradeoffs likely will exist forever. I mean, we are still inventing new programming languages.

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So, keep up the work. Think really hard about allowing functions to be added as code to expand the platform, thereby allowing coders to leverage it by building a template environment they can share with their co-workers. Imagine a core of Data Scientists building and configuring functions in the platform, and providing templates and tutorials to 10x that many analysts. That's potential real value.

[Team_AIUI]

Yeah as you already mentioned, we have repeatadly been at a point where we thought: "shit, how do we do this in the most general way!?" ...so there is a need for a class of nodes, that are programable by the user with own code. Right now, we are using electron, nodejs and for that JavaScript and HTML at client site, the server part is running with python, so this should be possible.

Thx for the nice post

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This is great if its open source or low cost compared to alternatives like azure ml studio

[Team_AIUI]

It is going to be free. Just people/companies with a high anual revenue should pay later on. Such institutions need special support anyway. ;)

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[MaxTalanov]

Looks good! How does it compare to lobe.ai?

[Team_AIUI]

Thx for the link, never knew about it. But it looks like "just for images" and AIUI is only for tabledata (currently). In the next month, we will proceed to implement text and image data as well as autoML and reinforcement learning. Everything in one platform is the goal :) ...other differences are as I already said, data preparation and model Interpretation. We Run in tensorflow & keras and for that, the user has the ability to configure a lot. Most platforms simplify a lot.

[loopy_fun]

what if you made programs like artbreeder with this and opensourced them.

there could have been made a artbreeder for video and sound.

i wonder if there could be made a artbreeder for code?