How to Prepare Yourself to the Future PHP Artificial Intelligence Projects

In this article you will learn about:

1. Why You Should Prepare Yourself to Work with Artificial Intelligence Software Projects

2. What You Should Do to Prepare to Use Artificial Intelligence in the Projects that You Will Work in the Future

3. How You Can Prepare to Use Artificial Intelligence in Software Project

4. How You Can Prepare to Use Artificial Intelligence in PHP Software Projects

4.1 Base Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

4.2. Artificial Intelligence Applications

4.3 Artificial Intelligence Third-Party API Wrappers

4.4 Your Own Artificial Intelligence Applications and APIs

1. Why You Should Prepare Yourself to Work with Artificial Intelligence Software Projects

Artificial Intelligence applications use a set of algorithms developers can use to solve problems that follow a pattern.

A pattern is a set of very similar situations. For instance, finding the roads that a car can use to go from one place to another place is a problem that follows a pattern.

Artificial intelligence algorithms depart from learning how humans solve problems that follow the same pattern.

Applications that find the roads to travel between two places use algorithms that start from learning how humans found the best routes to go from the start place to the end place.

Usually, the problems that use artificial algorithms are usually too complex or follow an unknown pattern that keeps changing. These algorithms can learn from humans with experience in solving problems, so they can teach people with less experience how to solve the same issues.

The recent launch of applications like ChatGPT made artificial intelligence more attractive to many people and businesses unaware of the potential of synthetic solutions.

So it is natural to expect that more and more companies that want to develop software projects will require developers with experience using artificial intelligence algorithms.

Being ready to use artificial intelligence algorithms will help you to be prepared to work on jobs that will require artificial intelligence experience.

2. What You Should Do to Prepare to Use Artificial Intelligence in the Projects that You Will Work in the Future

If you do not have experience in artificial intelligence, you need to learn more about how it works in practice. Articles like this are just introductions to the subject.

I have written another recent article about whether "Is Artificial Intelligence a Good Thing for the Future of PHP Developers" that provides more details about the theory of artificial intelligence applications.

3. How You Can Prepare to Use Artificial Intelligence in Software Project

After you learn about artificial intelligence theory, you need to practice to avoid forgetting what you learned.

You should start developing small applications using your favorite programming language to solve simple problems that follow a pattern.

Nowadays, you do not need to develop everything from scratch. There ready to use libraries and APIs that you can use with modern languages that many developers use.

4. How You Can Prepare to Use Artificial Intelligence in PHP Software Projects

If your favorite programming language is PHP, you are very fortunate because PHP is widely used, and many PHP developers share their work with artificial intelligence as Open Source projects.

There are many PHP libraries on many sites on the Internet. You can start looking at the artificial intelligence category of the PHP Classes site. There are over 50 PHP packages specifically for implementing artificial intelligence algorithms.

4.1 Base Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

There are older packages that implement base algorithms in plain PHP, like:

4.1.1 Neural networks: Perceptron, PHP Neural Network Library, PHP Neuron Message transmission, ANN Router, Back Propagation Scale, CSV Pair File, Digital Human, Layerless

4.1.2 Bayesian inference: Bayesian Spam Filter

4.1.3 Genetic algorithms: PHP Genetic Algorithm Class, PHP Genetic Algorithm Methods, PHP Genetic GPS, Binary GA, Evolutionary Programming, GA

4.1.4 Fuzzy logic: PHP Fuzzy Logic Library, Fuzzy logic

4.2. Artificial Intelligence Applications

Other packages already apply these algorithms to solve problems of practical use like:

4.2.1 Voice recognition: Cognitive PHP Voice Recognition

4.2.2 Detecting objects in images: PHP OCR Class, Darknet PHP Image Recognition Library

4.2.3 Detecting the gender of a person from his name: PHP Detect Gender Latin, Detect Gender Hanzi, Gender Universal, Gender-Cyrillic, Name String Order

4.2.4 Detecting if images that may contain people with certain features: PHP Face Detection Library, HAAR PHP Image Feature Detection Library, Image ... Filter

4.2.5 Detect the language of a text: PHP Detect Language of Text Genius, PHP Language Detector

4.2.6 Expert systems that make decisions based on answers: PHP Expert System Engine

4.2.7 Detecting the type of license of a project: PHP License Detector

4.2.8 Detecting sentiments of people from the text they wrote: PHP Sentiment Analyzer

4.2.9 Natural language processing: PHP Moby NLP

4.3 Artificial Intelligence Third-Party API Wrappers

There are more recent libraries that can use third-party APIs to help implement the artificial algorithms and applications without having to write much code like:

4.3.1 OpenAI: PHP OpenAI API Client, PHP OpenAI Library, Laravel GPT

4.3.2 IBM Watson: PHP IBM Watson

4.3.3 PicPurify: PHP PicPurify API

4.3.4 Algorithmia: Algorithmia PHP

4.4 Your Own Artificial Intelligence Applications and APIs

As you may have noticed, many of these packages were nominated for the PHP Innovation Award. The authors of those packages earned recognition and prizes for sharing their work on the PHP Classes site.

If you are interested in also earning recognition for sharing your artificial intelligence work, consider contributing your packages to the PHP Classes site.