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2019's AI top 5 (Practical AI #71)
Wow, 2019 was an amazing year for AI! In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss their list of top 5 notable AI things from 2019. They also discuss the “state of AI” at the end of 2019, and they make some predictions for 2020.
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Notes and Links
- Google search and BERT
- Better Language Models and Their Implications
- Write with Transformer
- Hugging Face Transformers
- Hugging Face receives 15M in funding
- Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand
- Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
Other relevant Practical AI episodes:
- Robot hands and Rubik’s cubes
- BERT: one NLP model to rule them all
- OpenAI’s new “dangerous” GPT-2 language model
- Social AI with Hugging Face
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