Practical AI

2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019

Listen Later

Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.

This week we look back at 2018 - from the GDPR and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to advances in natural language processing and new open source tools. Then we offer our predications for what we expect in the year ahead, touching on just about everything in the world of AI.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

  • Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
  • Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
  • Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
  • Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com.

    • Featuring:

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

    Show Notes:

    2018 in Review

    • Focus on more challenging ML problems
    • Semi-supervised learning
    • Domain adaptation
    • Generative models
    • Reinforcement learning
    • NLP
    • ELMO
    • BERT
    • Fear about AI
    • GDPR, trust and privacy
    • Cambridge analytica
    • Facial recognition
    • Tons of open sourced tooling, models

      • Predictions for 2019

      • Focus on trust and transparency
      • Bias
      • Regulation
      • GDPR and transparency, interpretability
      • What will other countries do regarding regulation?
      • AI for good
      • Better voice and conversational results
      • AI assistants
      • Voice interfaces
      • NLP advances
      • More focus on product development, less on research
      • Deep learning will explode in production product / service development
      • Computer vision, NLP, speech recognition will be table stakes
      • Increased accessibility of DL to software engineers / developers
      • More testing/tooling
      • Better training for data scientists
      • Better integrations and infrastructure
      • AutoML
      • Organizational / Cultural Shifts
      • New roles for data-based leadership - CDO, CAIO, etc.,
      • Strategy - AI becoming first-class concern
      • Competitive Analysis - AI and data assessments mandatory
      • Fragmentation into distinct subfields - AI, analytics, data science, prognostics
      • A changing relationship between humans and automation
      • AI + robotics - first steps
      • Pervasive AI + IoT - first steps
      • The importance of creative expertise for humans
      • How to school your child today to prep for tomorrow
      • Narrowly-scoped, highly-specific job functions at most risk

        • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

        ...more
        View all episodesView all episodes
        Download on the App Store
        Practical AIBy Practical AI LLC
        • 4.4
        • 4.4
        • 4.4
        • 4.4
        • 4.4

        4.4

        185 ratings

        More shows like Practical AI

        View all
        The AI in Business Podcast by Daniel Faggella

        The AI in Business Podcast

        170 Listeners

        Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn by Jon Krohn

        Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

        303 Listeners

        NVIDIA AI Podcast by NVIDIA

        NVIDIA AI Podcast

        334 Listeners

        Last Week in AI by Skynet Today

        Last Week in AI

        306 Listeners

        Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) by Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

        Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

        95 Listeners

        Me, Myself, and AI by MIT Sloan Management Review

        Me, Myself, and AI

        110 Listeners

        AI Chat: ChatGPT, AI News, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Machine Learning by Jaeden Schafer

        AI Chat: ChatGPT, AI News, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Machine Learning

        154 Listeners

        This Day in AI Podcast by Michael Sharkey, Chris Sharkey

        This Day in AI Podcast

        227 Listeners

        The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis by Nathaniel Whittemore

        The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

        608 Listeners

        AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical by Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell

        AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical

        275 Listeners

        Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast by Everyday AI

        Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

        107 Listeners

        A Beginner's Guide to AI by Dietmar Fischer

        A Beginner's Guide to AI

        54 Listeners

        AI Hustle: Make Money from AI and ChatGPT, Midjourney, NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI by Jaeden Schafer and Jamie McCauley

        AI Hustle: Make Money from AI and ChatGPT, Midjourney, NVIDIA, Anthropic, OpenAI

        173 Listeners

        AI + a16z by a16z

        AI + a16z

        35 Listeners

        The TED AI Show by TED

        The TED AI Show

        49 Listeners