2019's AI top 5 (Practical AI #71)

Wow, 2019 was an amazing year for AI! In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss their list of top 5 notable AI things from 2019. They also discuss the “state of AI” at the end of 2019, and they make some predictions for 2020.

Wow, 2019 was an amazing year for AI! In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss their list of top 5 notable AI things from 2019. They also discuss the “state of AI” at the end of 2019, and they make some predictions for 2020.

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Featuring:

Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Google search and BERT
Better Language Models and Their Implications
Write with Transformer
Hugging Face Transformers
Hugging Face receives 15M in funding
Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes

Other relevant Practical AI episodes:

Robot hands and Rubik’s cubes
BERT: one NLP model to rule them all
OpenAI’s new “dangerous” GPT-2 language model
Social AI with Hugging Face

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