====Quick AI====

Addons like [[cognition:start|Cognition]] were developed to allow users to create very basic AIs using their ARDI data. But there were several disadvantages to this process.

   * The AIs were built on customer equipment, which may be very low-spec (particularly in embedded applications). It is usually more efficient to perform the training on better, local hardware.

   * There was very little flexibility in terms of structure, size or other AI model hyperparameters.

   * There was no way to add additional channels of data, drop useless channels, fix issues, filter or otherwise manipulate the input data.

   * There was no way to synchronise the data with non-ARDI sources or events.

The **Quick AI** addon overcomes all of these difficulties by turning assets into the //sample data// and //Python code// required to build, test and debug AIs on other systems outside the ARDI server.

===Building an AI===

First, **Choose the asset you want to model**.

Open the ARDI dashboard for that asset, and choose //Quick Model//.

Next, [[choose the type of model|choose the type of model you want to make]].