Explaining AI explainability
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The CEO of Darwin AI, Sheldon Fernandez, joins Daniel to discuss generative synthesis and its connection to explainability. You might have heard of AutoML and meta-learning. Well, generative synthesis tackles similar problems from a different angle and results in compact, explainable networks. This episode is fascinating and very timely.

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Featuring:

• Sheldon Fernandez – Twitter), LinkedIn)

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

Show Notes:

• Darwin AI)

• FermiNets) - a paper that introduces the idea of generative synthesis.

• COVID-Net) - Darwin AI’s COVID-related computer vision model.

• NLP highlights podcast episode on Behavioral Testing) - behavioral tests

• Sheldon’s explainability primer on medium)

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