Learning to learn deep learning 📖 (Practical AI #137)

Chris and Daniel sit down to chat about some exciting new AI developments including wav2vec-u (an unsupervised speech recognition model) and meta-learning (a new book about “How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World”). Along the way they discuss engineering skills for AI developers and strategies for launching AI initiatives in established companies.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• High-performance speech recognition with no supervision at all
• deeplearning.ai MLOps course
• GitHub MLOps resources

Books

• “Cracking The Data Code” by Mike Bugembe
• “Meta Learning” by Radek Osmulski

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