Martin Goodson | Practical Data Science & The UK's AI Roadmap

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Martin Goodson (Evolution AI) describes the key aspects of the UK's AI Roadmap & responses to the document by members of the Royal Statistical Society. In particular, Martin describes the disconnect between the priorities of AI startups and industry practitioners on one side, and government and academia on the other. Martin also outlines which skills early career data scientists should focus on while in school versus after entering the workforce.

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Topic List

0:00 COMING UP: Scientific culture & AI

1:25 The UK AI Roadmap

8:44 Who is a data science “practitioner”? 

12:53 Data science in AI startups

20:36 Is there a disconnect between practitioners & academia?

25:09 Key skills for new data science graduates

32:03 Coding & production level data science

39:30 Learning the right data analysis skills at the course-level. 

45:32 AI leadership

58:40 AI from academia & OpenSource initiatives

1:05:37 Large institutions' impact on the AI field

1:08:24 Back to the UK AI roadmap  

1:12:16 Building an AI community 

1:13:15 AI in our lifetime: Moonshots & realistic goals

1:14:31 Scientific debate