2019's AI top 5
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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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• Chris Benson – Twitter), GitHub), LinkedIn), Website)

• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter), GitHub), Website)

Show 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)

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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