AI in the majority world and model distillation

30/09/2019 45 min Episodio 58
AI in the majority world and model distillation

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Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum in the majority world (Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean), and they dig into Hugging Face’s recent model distillation results.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:AI in the majority world:

NeurIPS publications by country
“Best” universities according to the Times Higher Education
ICLR in Ethiopia
Google AI offices:

Bangalore
Ghana
Beijing


Deep Learning Indaba
Southeast Asia Machine Learning School
Facebook’s AI for India summit
AI Singapore
Indonesia AI research center

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Papers with code
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