Practical AI

By Daniel Whitenack and Chris BensonTechnology

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April 19, 2022🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture
In the fourth “AI in Africa” spotlight episode, we welcome Leonida Mutuku and Godliver Owomugisha, two experts in applying advanced technology in agriculture. We had a great discussion about ending poverty, hunger, and inequality in Africa via AI innovation. The discussion touches on open data, relevant models, ethics, and more.

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Featuring:
Leo Mutuku – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Godliver Owomugisha – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Joyce Nabende – X
Show Notes:
Godliver’s Google Scholar page
Godliver’s academic homepage
Local Development Research Institute (LDRI)
CropSpec
Open for Good Alliance
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52 min
April 05, 2022Quick, beautiful web UIs for ML apps
Abubakar Abid joins Daniel and Chris for a tour of Gradio and tells them about the project joining Hugging Face. What’s Gradio? The fastest way to demo your machine learning model with a friendly web interface, allowing non-technical users to access, use, and give feedback on models.

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Featuring:
Abubakar Abid – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Gradio | We are joining Hugging Face!
Gradio | Github
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43 min
March 29, 2022It's been a BIG week in AI news 🗞
This last week has been a big week for AI news. BigScience is training a huge language model (while the world watches), and NVIDIA announced their latest “Hopper” GPUs. Chris and Daniel discuss these and other topics on this fully connected episode!

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Featuring:
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Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
BigScience Language Model Training
Model Details
Live model logs and training curves
H100 from NVIDIA
[White paper](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
https://cf-store.widencdn.net/nvdam/8/4/a/84ae26c1-6774-4083-a41d-4f3d82a6a449.pdf)
Omniverse platform
Earth-2 Supercomputer
Stanford’s AI Index 2022
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42 min
March 23, 2022"Foundation" models
The term “foundation” model has been around since about the middle of last year when a research group at Stanford published the comprehensive report On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models. The naming of these models created some strong reactions, both good and bad. In this episode, Chris and Daniel dive into the ideas behind the report.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Report: “On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models”
Follow up Blog post: “Reflections on Foundation Models”
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42 min
March 16, 2022Clothing AI in a data fabric
What happens when your data operations grow to Internet-scale? How do thousands or millions of data producers and consumers efficiently, effectively, and productively interact with each other? How are varying formats, protocols, security levels, performance criteria, and use-case specific characteristics meshed into one unified data fabric? Chris and Daniel explore these questions in this illuminating and Fully-Connected discussion that brings this new data technology into the light.

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Featuring:
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Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Learning Resources
Go.Dev - a great programming language for data fabric development
Books
“Python Data Science Handbook” by Jake VanderPlas
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47 min
March 08, 2022Creating a culture of innovation
Daniel and Chris talk with Lukas Egger, Head of Innovation Office and Strategic Projects at SAP Business Process Intelligence. Lukas describes what it takes to bring a culture of innovation into an organization, and how to infuse product development with that innovation culture. He also offers suggestions for how to mitigate challenges and blockers.

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Featuring:
Lukas Egger – Website, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
SAP BPI
Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners
More with LeSS
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Kaizen | Wikipedia
Stratechery
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53 min
March 01, 2022Deploying models (to tractors 🚜)
Alon from Greeneye and Moses from ClearML blew us away when they said that they are training 1000’s of models a year that get deployed to Kubernetes clusters on tractors. Yes… we said tractors, as in farming! This is a super cool discussion about MLOps solutions at scale for interesting use cases in agriculture.

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Featuring:
Alon Klein Orback – X
Moses Guttmann –
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Greeneye
Greeneye Blog
ClearML
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51 min
February 15, 2022One algorithm to rule them all?
From MIT researchers who have an AI system that rapidly predicts how two proteins will attach, to Facebook’s first high-performance self-supervised algorithm that works for speech, vision, and text, Daniel and Chris survey the AI landscape for notable milestones in the application of AI in industry and research.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The first high-performance self-supervised algorithm that works for speech, vision, and text
DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer
Artificial intelligence system rapidly predicts how two proteins will attach
Seeing Theory
Books
“The Art of Doing Science and Engineering” by Richard W. Hamming
“Patterns, Predictions, and Actions” by Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht
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45 min
February 09, 2022🌍 AI in Africa - Voice & language tools
In the third of the “AI in Africa” spotlight episodes, we welcome Kathleen Siminyu, who is building Kiswahili voice tools at Mozilla. We had a great discussion with Kathleen about creating more diverse voice and language datasets, involving local language communities in NLP work, and expanding grassroots ML/AI efforts across Africa.

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Featuring:
Kathleen Siminyu – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Joyce Nabende – X
Show Notes:
“Introducing myself” from Kathleen
Masakhane
Common Voice
Open for Good Alliance
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44 min
February 01, 2022Exploring deep reinforcement learning
In addition to being a Developer Advocate at Hugging Face, Thomas Simonini is building next-gen AI in games that can talk and have smart interactions with the player using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He also created a Deep Reinforcement Learning course that takes a DRL beginner to from zero to hero. Natalie and Chris explore what’s involved, and what the implications are, with a focus on the development path of the new AI data scientist.

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Featuring:
Thomas Simonini – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Thomas Simonini | Hugging Face
Deep Reinforcement Learning course
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42 min

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Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more).