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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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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
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
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OpenAI’s new “dangerous” GPT-2 language model
Social AI with Hugging Face
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