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 – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

AI in the majority world:

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DistilBERT from Hugging Face

Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning

Papers with code

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AI in the majority world and model distillation