AI-driven studies of the ancient world and good GANs

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science

English - July 30, 2019 19:10 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
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Chris and Daniel take the opportunity to catch up on some recent AI news. Among other things, they discuss the increasing impact of AI on studies of the ancient world and “good” uses of GANs. They also provide some more learning resources to help you level up your AI and machine learning game.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

AI is impacting studies of the ancient world:

Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages:
Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games:
Others studies:

Deep Learning for Classical Japanese Literature:
In Codice Ratio: Machine Transcription in the Vatican Secret Archive:
Reading Medieval Manuscripts with Deep Learning Technology:

The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason

A new way to use the AI behind deepfakes could improve cancer diagnosis:

AIs are playing more games:

DeepMind AI is secretly lurking on the public StarCraft II 1v1 ladder
An unbeatable poker bot offers glimpses of video game AI’s future

Relevant learning resources:

NumPy implementations of a bunch of models (from scratch):
Great new-ish NLP courses: