Practical AI

The multidisciplinary field of AI Ethics is brand new, and is currently being pioneered by a relatively small number of leading AI organizations and academic institutions around the world. AI Ethics focuses on ensuring that unexpected outcomes from AI technology implementations occur as rarely as possible. Daniel and Chris discuss strategies for how to arrive at AI ethical principles suitable for your own organization, and what is involved in implementing those strategies in the real world. Tune in for a practical AI primer on AI Ethics!

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• Practical AI episode 85: Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
• Google - Responsible AI Practices
• Microsoft - Responsible AI
• U.S. Department of Defense - Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence
• OECD Principles on AI
• Cambridge - The Role and Limits of Principles in AI Ethics: Towards a Focus on Tensions
• Nature - Principles alone cannot guarantee ethical AI

Books

• “Artificial Intelligence” by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
• “Human Compatible” by Stuart Russell

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Daniel and Chris get you Fully-Connected with open source software for artificial intelligence.
 In addition to defining what open source is, they discuss where to find open source tools and data, and how you can contribute back to the open source AI community.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• General discussion of AI and open source code/data/model
• How to experiment with open source tools/data
• What are easy ways to start contributing
• What are ways to contribute to open source AI other than contributing to key projects?

Sources:

• GitHub
• Papers With Code
• Semantic Scholar
• Google Dataset Search
• Data.gov

Learning resources:

• Guide to making your first open source contribution

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A lot of effort is put into the training of AI models, but, for those of us that actually want to run AI models in production, performance and scaling quickly become blockers. Nikita from MemSQL joins us to talk about how people are integrating ML/AI inference at scale into existing SQL-based workflows. He also touches on how model features and raw files can be managed and integrated with distributed databases.

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Featuring:

• Nikita Shamgunov – Website, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• MemSQL
• MemSQL’s ML/AI capabilities
• MemSQL’s recent AI/ML e-book
• Contact tracing case study with MemSQL and True Digital

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This full connected has it all: news, updates on AI/ML tooling, discussions about AI workflow, and learning resources. Chris and Daniel breakdown the various roles to be played in AI development including scoping out a solution, finding AI value, experimentation, and more technical engineering tasks. They also point out some good resources for exploring bias in your data/model and monitoring for fairness.

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• DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. 
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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Streamlit:

• Streamlit funding announcement
• Previous Practical AI episode about Streamlit

GPU acceleration in Windows Subsystem for Linux

Fairness and bias:

• Google’s explanation of bias in their ML crash course
• IBM fairness 360
• Google’s responsible AI practices
• Driven Data’s Deon project
• Previous Practical AI episode about bias in AI and hiring
• US Department of Defense Ethical principles for AI

Chris’s personal, COVID-related blog post

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Daniel and Chris go beyond the current state of the art in deep learning to explore the next evolutions in artificial intelligence. From Yoshua Bengio’s NeurIPS keynote, which urges us forward towards System 2 deep learning, to DARPA’s vision of a 3rd Wave of AI, Chris and Daniel investigate the incremental steps between today’s AI and possible future manifestations of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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• DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. 
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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• Yoshua Bengio | From System 1 Deep Learning to System 2 Deep Learning | NeurIPS 2019 (video)
• Yoshua Bengio | From System 1 Deep Learning to System 2 Deep Learning | NeurIPS 2019 (slides)
• Yoshua Bengio | Wikipedia
• A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
• DARPA | Wikipedia
• U.S. Department of Defense Directive 3000.09: Autonomy in Weapon Systems

Books

• “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman

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The CEO of Darwin AI, Sheldon Fernandez, joins Daniel to discuss generative synthesis and its connection to explainability. You might have heard of AutoML and meta-learning. Well, generative synthesis tackles similar problems from a different angle and results in compact, explainable networks. This episode is fascinating and very timely.

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Featuring:

• Sheldon Fernandez – LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Darwin AI
• FermiNets - a paper that introduces the idea of generative synthesis.
• COVID-Net - Darwin AI’s COVID-related computer vision model.
• NLP highlights podcast episode on Behavioral Testing - behavioral tests
• Sheldon’s explainability primer on medium

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On the heels of NVIDIA’s latest announcements, Daniel and Chris explore how the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture evolves the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape for artificial intelligence. After investigating the new specifications of the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU, Chris and Daniel turn their attention to the data center with the NVIDIA DGX A100, and then finish their journey at “the edge” with the NVIDIA EGX A100 and the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• NVIDIA Ampere Architecture In-Depth
• NVIDIA DGX A100
• NVIDIA EGX A100
• NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX
• Practical AI – Episode #56 – Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC
• Practical AI – Episode #15 – Artificial intelligence at NVIDIA

Learning Resources

• NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
• Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide

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Chandler McCann tells Daniel and Chris about how DataRobot engaged in a project to develop sustainable water solutions with the Global Water Challenge (GWC). They analyzed over 500,000 data points to predict future water point breaks. This enabled African governments to make data-driven decisions related to budgeting, preventative maintenance, and policy in order to promote and protect people’s access to safe water for drinking and washing. From this effort sprang DataRobot’s larger AI for Good initiative.

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• AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack. Get 10% off using the code PRACTICALAI10. To learn more and purchase tickets go to datadan.io. 
• 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. 

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

• Worldwide Water Access: Tapping into a Well of Data
• AI for Good with DataRobot: Saving the World One Use Case at a Time
• AI for Good: Powered by DataRobot
• DataRobot

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Daniel and Chris get you Fully-Connected with AI questions from listeners and online forums:

• What do you think is the next big thing?
• What are CNNs?
• How does one start developing an AI-enabled business solution?
• What tools do you use every day?
• What will AI replace?
• And more…

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• DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. 
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• AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack. Get 10% off using the code PRACTICALAI10. To learn more and purchase tickets go to datadan.io. 
• 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. 

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Books

• “Data Science from Scratch” by Joel Grus

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Daniel and Chris have a fascinating discussion with Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini from Google Brain about the use of reinforcement learning for chip floor planning - or placement - in which many new designs are generated, and then evaluated, to find an optimal component layout. Anna and Azalia also describe the use of graph convolutional neural networks in their approach.

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• AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack. Get 10% off using the code PRACTICALAI10. To learn more and purchase tickets go to datadan.io. 
• 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. 
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Featuring:

• Anna Goldie – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Azalia Mirhoseini – LinkedIn, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Their research paper
• Google Brain
• Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI | MIT Technology Review
• Practical AI episode #47: GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!

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