Practical AI

By Daniel Whitenack and Chris BensonTechnology

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Practical AI episodes

September 25, 2019The influence of open source on AI development
The All Things Open conference is happening soon, and we snagged one of their speakers to discuss open source and AI. Samuel Taylor talks about the essential role that open source is playing in AI development and research, and he gives us some tips on choosing AI-related side projects.

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All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019
Featuring:
Samuel Taylor – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Tweet and mention @Changelog or @PracticalAIFM for a chance to win 1 of 5 free passes to the conference!
“I want a free pass to @AllThingsOpen because…”
All Things Open
Samuel’s All Things Open talk description
Episode #17 - Fighting bias in hiring
Jupyter
Pandas
Scikit-learn
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46 min
September 17, 2019Worlds are colliding - AI and HPC
In this very special fully-connected episode of Practical AI, Daniel interviews Chris. They discuss High Performance Computing (HPC) and how it is colliding with the world of AI. Chris explains how HPC differs from cloud/on-prem infrastructure, and he highlights some of the challenges of an HPC-based AI strategy.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
HPC course on Udacity
Google Colab
SIParCS internship at NCAR
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49 min
September 09, 2019AutoML and AI at Google
We’re talking with Sherol Chen, a machine learning developer, about AI at Google and AutoML methods. Sherol explains how the various AI groups within Google work together and how AutoML fits into that puzzle. She also explains how to get started with AutoML step-by-step (this is “practical” AI after all).

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Featuring:
Sherol Chen – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Google cloud
Google AI
Tensorflow
Quoc V. Le’s research
Cloud AutoML
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59 min
August 26, 2019On being humAIn
David Yakobovitch joins the show to talk about the evolution of data science tools and techniques, the work he’s doing to teach these things at Galvanize, what his HumAIn Podcast is all about, and more.

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Featuring:
David Yakobovitch – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Galvanize
HumAIn Podcast
Books
“The Big Nine” by Amy Webb
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56 min
August 12, 2019Serving deep learning models with RedisAI
Redis is a an open source, in-memory data structure store, widely used as a database, cache and message broker. It now also support tensor data types and deep learning models via the RedisAI module. Why did they build this module? Who is or should be using it? We discuss this and much more with Pieter Cailliau.

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Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
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:
Pieter Cailliau – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Redis
Redis modules
RedisAI
Hangar
Hangar on GitHub
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47 min
July 30, 2019AI-driven studies of the ancient world and good GANs
Chris and Daniel take the opportunity to catch up on some recent AI news. Among other things, they discuss the increasing impact of AI on studies of the ancient world and “good” uses of GANs. They also provide some more learning resources to help you level up your AI and machine learning game.

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Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
AI is impacting studies of the ancient world:
Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages:
Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games:
Others studies:
Deep Learning for Classical Japanese Literature:
In Codice Ratio: Machine Transcription in the Vatican Secret Archive:
Reading Medieval Manuscripts with Deep Learning Technology:
The AI technique that could imbue machines with the ability to reason
A new way to use the AI behind deepfakes could improve cancer diagnosis:
AIs are playing more games:
DeepMind AI is secretly lurking on the public StarCraft II 1v1 ladder
An unbeatable poker bot offers glimpses of video game AI’s future
Relevant learning resources:
NumPy implementations of a bunch of models (from scratch):
Great new-ish NLP courses:
Advanced NLP with spacy:
New fast.ai course! A Code-First Introduction to NLP:
Google Cloud - Deep Learning Containers
Books
“The Pragmatic Programmer” by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
“Data Science from Scratch” by Joel Grus
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55 min
July 19, 2019AI code that facilitates good science
We’re talking with Joel Grus, author of Data Science from Scratch, 2nd Edition, senior research engineer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), and maintainer of AllenNLP. We discussed Joel’s book, which has become a personal favorite of the hosts, and why he decided to approach data science and AI “from scratch.” Joel also gives us a glimpse into AI2, an introduction to AllenNLP, and some tips for writing good research code. This episode is packed full of reproducible AI goodness!

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Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
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Featuring:
Joel Grus – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Allen AI
AllenNLP
AllenNLP demo website
Writing Code for NLP Research
I don’t like Notebooks
Joel’s website
Adversarial learning podcast
Books
“Data Science from Scratch” by Joel Grus
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54 min
July 03, 2019Celebrating episode 50 and the neural net!
Woo hoo! As we celebrate reaching episode 50, we come full circle to discuss the basics of neural networks. If you are just jumping into AI, then this is a great primer discussion with which to take that leap.
Our commitment to making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone has never been stronger, so we invite you to join us for the next 50 episodes!

Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Learn more about neural networks with the following learning resources.
Books
“Deep Learning” by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
“Data Science from Scratch” by Joel Grus
There are literally too many others to name…
Online Courses
fast.ai MOOC
Deep Learning course by Google on Udacity (free)
Practical Machine Learning with TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha (free Udacity course)
deeplearning.ai Deep Learning Specialization
Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (free Coursera course for TensorFlow 2)
Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning by TensorFlow (free Udacity course for TensorFlow 2)
Websites
Microsoft AI School
TensorFlow 2 Docs
Amazon Machine Learning Training
PyTorch
Facebook AI
Google AI
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51 min
June 25, 2019Exposing the deception of DeepFakes
This week we bend reality to expose the deceptions of deepfake videos. We talk about what they are, why they are so dangerous, and what you can do to detect and resist their insidious influence. In a political environment rife with distrust, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, deepfakes are being weaponized and proliferated as the latest form of state-sponsored information warfare. Join us for an episode scarier than your favorite horror movie, because this AI bogeyman is real!

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Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives.
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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The Dark Knight’s Tale (DeepFake)
Official PyTorch Implementation of StarGAN - CVPR 2018
Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (YouTube)
Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (PDF)
MelNet: A Generative Model for Audio in the Frequency Domain
Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video
Better Language Models and Their Implications (GPT-2)
Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
The National Security Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Manipulated Media, and
“Deepfakes” – 13 June 2019
Student with access to TPU credits reproduced GPT2-1.5B and plan to release model
Papers With Code: fake+detection
In Ictu Oculi: Exposing AI Generated Fake Face Videos by Detecting Eye Blinking
A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance Detection Task
Deepfake debunking tool may protect presidential candidates. For now. Sometimes
The Era of Fake Videos is Here
S.3805 - Malicious Deep Fake Prohibition Act of 2018
Practical AI episode #47 - GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my!
Synthetic Realities: Deep Learning for Detecting AudioVisual Fakes
Machine Learning for fake news detection: theory and practice
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56 min
June 17, 2019Model inspection and interpretation at Seldon
Interpreting complicated models is a hot topic. How can we trust and manage AI models that we can’t explain? In this episode, Janis Klaise, a data scientist with Seldon, joins us to talk about model interpretation and Seldon’s new open source project called Alibi. Janis also gives some of his thoughts on production ML/AI and how Seldon addresses related problems.

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Featuring:
Janis Klaise – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Seldon
Seldon Core
Alibi
Books
“The Foundation Series” by Isaac Asimov
“Interpretable Machine Learning” by Christoph Molnar
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44 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).