Practical AI

By Daniel Whitenack and Chris BensonTechnology

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April 20, 2020Exploring the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel and Chris have a timely conversation with Lucy Lu Wang of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence about COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). She relates how CORD-19 was created and organized, and how researchers around the world are currently using the data to answer important COVID-19 questions that will help the world through this ongoing crisis.

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Featuring:
Lucy Lu Wang – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Lucy Lu Wang - Google Scholar
Kaggle: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
CORD-19 Explorer
Semantic Scholar | CORD-19
Allen Institute for AI
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44 min
April 13, 2020Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI
AI legend Stuart Russell, the Berkeley professor who leads the Center for Human-Compatible AI, joins Chris to share his insights into the future of artificial intelligence. Stuart is the author of Human Compatible, and the upcoming 4th edition of his perennial classic Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, which is widely regarded as the standard text on AI. After exposing the shortcomings inherent in deep learning, Stuart goes on to propose a new practitioner approach to creating AI that avoids harmful unintended consequences, and offers a path forward towards a future in which humans can safely rely of provably beneficial AI.

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Featuring:
Stuart Russell – Website, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Stuart Russell on Wikipedia
Stuart Russell’s TED Speaker profile
Center for Human-Compatible AI
Stuart Russell on how to make AI ‘human-compatible’
AI could be a disaster for humanity. A top computer scientist thinks he has the solution.
Leading AI Luminary Has An Idea To Ensure Humans Remain In Control
Books
“Artificial Intelligence” by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
“Human Compatible” by Stuart Russell
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53 min
April 06, 2020COVID-19 Q&A and CORD-19
So many AI developers are coming up with creative, useful COVID-19 applications during this time of crisis. Among those are Timo from Deepset-AI and Tony from Intel. They are working on a question answering system for pandemic-related questions called COVID-QA. In this episode, they describe the system, related annotation of the CORD-19 data set, and ways that you can contribute!

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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
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Featuring:
Timo Möeller – GitHub, LinkedIn
Tony Reina – GitHub, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
COVID-QA
CORD-19
Episode featuring SpaCy
Sentence transformers
Episode on BERT
German BERT from Deepset-AI
Hugging Face Transformers
Haystack from Deepset-AI
Deepmind molecular structure with RL project
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55 min
March 30, 2020Mapping the intersection of AI and GIS
Daniel Wilson and Rob Fletcher of ESRI hang with Chris and Daniel to chat about how AI powered modern geographic information systems (GIS) and location intelligence. They illuminate the various models used for GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, real-time visualization, and 3D analytics. You don’t want to miss the part about their work for the DoD’s Joint AI Center in humanitarian assistance / disaster relief.

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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
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:
Daniel Wilson – LinkedIn
Rob Fletcher – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
ESRI
ESRI - GeoAI Blog
ESRI - YouTube: ArcGIS & Artificial Intelligence (DoD JAIC)
Practical AI #72: How the U.S. military thinks about AI (DoD JAIC)
Books
“Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” by Christopher M. Bishop
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50 min
March 25, 2020Welcome to Practical AI
Practical AI is a weekly podcast that’s marking artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. If world of AI affects your daily life, this show is for you.
Whether you're deep in the tools and trends, trying to keep up…
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To the AI curious trying to understand the concepts at play and their implications on our lives…
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Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack are here to keep you fully-connected with the world of machine learning and data science.
Please listen to a recent episode that interests you and subscribe today. We’d love to have you as a listener!

Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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2 min
March 23, 2020Speech recognition to say it just right
Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.

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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
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:
Catherine Breslin – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Catherine Breslin - Google Scholar
Cobalt Speech and Language
Business Insider: The 100 coolest people in UK tech - Catherine Breslin
The Female Lead - Catherine Breslin
Silicon Republic: 15 architects building the data-driven future
Stylist: Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans
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50 min
March 16, 2020Building a career in Data Science
Emily Robinson, co-author of the book Build a Career in Data Science, gives us the inside scoop about optimizing the data science job search. From creating one’s resume, cover letter, and portfolio to knowing how to recognize the right job at a fair compensation rate.
Emily’s expert guidance takes us from the beginning of the process to conclusion, including being successful during your early days in that fantastic new data science position.

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AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack
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:
Emily Robinson – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Comment on the episode page for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook! Tell us why you are interested in Data Science and how this book might help you achieve your goals. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected on April 13th!
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Books
“Build a Career in Data Science” by Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis
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“Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
“Designing Your New Work Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
“Designing Your Life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
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52 min
March 09, 2020What exactly is "data science" these days?
Matt Brems from General Assembly joins us to explain what “data science” actually means these days and how that has changed over time. He also gives us some insight into how people are going about data science education, how AI fits into the data science workflow, and how to differentiate yourself career-wise.

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Featuring:
Matt Brems – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
General Assembly
Betavector
Previous episode: Exposing the deception of DeepFakes
Data Science Venn diagram
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49 min
March 02, 2020TensorFlow in the cloud
Craig Wiley, from Google Cloud, joins us to discuss various pieces of the TensorFlow ecosystem along with TensorFlow Enterprise. He sheds light on how enterprises are utilizing AI and supporting AI-driven applications in the Cloud. He also clarifies Google’s relationship to TensorFlow and explains how TensorFlow development is impacting Google Cloud Platform.

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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 move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Featuring:
Craig Wiley – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Google’s “Rules of ML”
Tensorflow
TensorFlow Hub
Unity
TensorFlow enterprise
Google’s ML crash course
10 week Kaggle course
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48 min
February 24, 2020NLP for the world's 7000+ languages
Expanding AI technology to the local languages of emerging markets presents huge challenges. Good data is scarce or non-existent. Users often have bandwidth or connectivity issues. Existing platforms target only a small number of high-resource languages.
Our own Daniel Whitenack (data scientist at SIL International) and Dan Jeffries (from Pachyderm) discuss how these and related problems will only be solved when AI technology and resources from industry are combined with linguistic expertise from those on the ground working with local language communities. They have illustrated this approach as they work on pushing voice technology into emerging markets.

Featuring:
Dan Jeffries – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The world’s languages
Ethnologue
TTS for Singlish
SIL International
Pachyderm
Previous episode - Pachyderm’s Kubernetes-based infrastructure for AI
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55 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).