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.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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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