Listen "Eye tracking, Henry Kissinger on AI, Vim"
Episode Synopsis
Chris and Daniel help us wade through the week’s AI news, including open ML challenges from Intel and National Geographic, Henry Kissinger’s views on AI, and a model that can detect personality based on eye movements. They also point out some useful resources to learn more about pandas, the vim editor, and AI algorithms.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:News:
RFP for National Geographic AI earth innovation
Intel - AI Interplanetary challenge
App that lets Alexa read sign language
The mythos of model interpretability
Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Your Personality By Simply Tracking Your Eyes
Think You Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? Think Again.
How the Enlightenment Ends
Learning resources:
Pandas tips and tricks
Mastering vim quickly
An introduction to Gradient Descent Algorithm
Introducing capsule networks
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