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Great article but I have to wonder; why would they build a JS version of Tensorflow? As far as I'm aware most ML is done on-server and while JS is great for building applications, it hardly seems powerful enough to do ML with.
It working on node.js aside (which is on the server), having a JS version lowers the barrier of entry, imo -- spinning up a quick demo just to figure out if you're even interested in this makes it waaaaaay more approachable to ML beginners
Yeah. In our country (Philippines), there are waaaaaayyy more JavaScript developers than Python developers because that's what's taught in school. So introducing this will really make it easier for more developers to get into the ML space. 🎉
+1 this makes it available to a huge audience without them needing to learn a new language and platform at the same time.
ALSO!! With WebAssembly and WebGL, the browser is continuing to become a legitimate platform. It's less and less accurate to think of JS as just an interpreted language, its APIs, optimizations, and tooling are making it a viable target for abstract machine code and even code that runs on a GPU. In that regard, this makes total sense, and as I think about it, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner!
It's a revolutionary development for me because I use JavaScript for everything! 😂
From web, mobile, desktop, even VR -- I use JavaScript to build all of those things.
Now that JavaScript has the powers of TensorFlow.js (which is easier to use than the previous Deeplearn.js), we are now able to bring the power of ML and AI to all of those platforms, effectively democratizing AI. 🎉
The reason to bring Tensorflow to the browser is mostly to work with pre trained models. What is CPU intensive is training the model. Anyway you can do both things in JS. But IMO, using JS to train a model is not an efficient approach.
I love where Tensorflow is going. It seems like this power is becoming more and more accessible every day. And it's definitely posts like this which help the process along. Thanks a lot Monica!
Between fast.ai, the host of paid courses, the seemingly never ending blog posts that go into fantastic detail, and the publicly available papers for Arxiv, making a start in deep learning is surprisingly democratic and open. It’s very neat.
Loving the TensorFlow ecosystem right now. Especially TensorFlow.js! 🔥
Talked about it during the TensorFlow Dev Summit Extended Manila here in the Philippines. 😁
The Layers API is awesome but it would be great if they also ship the Estimators API. That would be super cool. 😎
For folks curious about the performance of tensorflow.js in the browser, take a look at the team's Google I/O talk which contains a few benchmarks (and some neat demos). youtube.com/watch?v=OmofOvMApTU
Because tf.js uses webGL and the GPUs on the user's machine, it's surprisingly capable!
Thank you for the article and the demo app you wrote. It gave my a simple problem that I could understand, and the how and why you did the things to solve it.
I've been wanting to work with Google's Cloud Machine Learning Engine which is also based on tensorflow. Your demo is giving me something I can poke and prod to gain some understanding of the issues before I tackle Google's.
I'd like to work with the technology from the stand point of how to identify an appropriate problem, define it well, setup the inputs for something like Google's, and work with the output. I'll let Google handle the math. ;o)
I'd like to build something using JavaScript to access their api. I also like how you displayed the output. I've been looking for a simple tool like the plotly.js you used. Please don't look too close at any code I write I may borrow some of yours. ;o)
I haven't found good articles on using, and coding, AI this way. You explain things very well. Have you considered writing something for this perspective?
Thank you again.
This is a great project. But I don't understand it fully yet. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Gotta train myself more about how training a computer works.
Really nice. Im experimenting tensorflow in Py. Gonna give a try to js too