Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum in the majority world (Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean), and they dig into Hugging Face’s recent model distillation results.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

AI in the majority world:

Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe

DistilBERT from Hugging Face

Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning

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