GANs are at the center of AI hype. However, they are also starting to be extremely practical and be used to develop solutions to real problems. Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok join us for a deep dive into GANs and their application. We discuss the basics of GANs, their various flavors, and open research problems. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:Jakub Langr – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteVladimir Bok – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Ian Goodfellow NeurIPS paper 2014 GAN TTS Books “GANs in Action” by Jakub Langr and Vladimir Bok Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Streamlit recently burst onto the scene with their intuitive, open source solution for building custom ML/AI tools. It allows data scientists and ML engineers to rapidly build internal or external UIs without spending time on frontend development. In this episode, Adrien Treuille joins us to discuss ML/AI app development in general and Streamlit. We talk about the practicalities of working with Streamlit along with its seemingly instant adoption by AI2, Stripe, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Twitter. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. AI Demystified (FREE five-day mini-course) – Get an introduction to the most important concepts, types, and business applications for AI and Machine Learning. This course is 100% free. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:Adrien Treuille – Twitter, LinkedInChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Eterna Game Streamlit Streamlit articles Awesome Streamlit R Shiny Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

There’s a lot of hype about knowledge graphs and AI-methods for building or using them, but what exactly is a knowledge graph? How is it different from a database or other data store? How can I build my own knowledge graph? James Fletcher from Grakn Labs helps us understand knowledge graphs in general and some practical steps towards creating your own. He also discusses graph neural networks and the future of graph-augmented methods. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. AI Demystified (FREE five-day mini-course) – Get an introduction to the most important concepts, types, and business applications for AI and Machine Learning. This course is 100% free. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:James Fletcher – Twitter, LinkedInChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: Grakn Labs GraphSAGE Prologue Graph Nets (TensorFlow) Grakn KGLIB Grakn example projects and tutorials Grakn Blog Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Everyone is talking about it. OpenAI trained a pair of neural nets that enable a robot hand to solve a Rubik’s cube. That is super dope! The results have also generated a lot of commentary and controversy, mainly related to the way in which the results were represented on OpenAI’s blog. We dig into all of this in on today’s Fully Connected episode, and we point you to a few places where you can learn more about reinforcement learning. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – Check out DigitalOcean’s dedicated vCPU Droplets with dedicated vCPU threads. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. AI Demystified (FREE five-day mini-course) – Get an introduction to the most important concepts, types, and business applications for AI and Machine Learning. This course is 100% free. Featuring:Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: OpenAI’s result of solving a Rubik’s Cube with a robotic hand: Blog post Paper Example push back on Twitter Learning resources: OpenAI Gym Tutorial PyTorch RL Tutorial Tensorflow RL Tutorials Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Michael Malyuk, Co-founder of Heartex and Label Studio, shares insights on data labeling challenges and open source tooling in AI development. They discuss the importance of accurate data labeling for AI models, challenges in labeling large datasets, strategies for quality control, and the future of data labeling with tools like Label Studio.

Times series data is everywhere! I mean, seriously, try to think of some data that isn’t a time series. You have stock prices and weather data, which are the classics, but you also have a time series of images on your phone, time series log data coming off of your servers, and much more. In this episode, Anais from InfluxData helps us understand the range of methods and problems related to time series data. She also gives her perspective on when statistical methods might perform better than neural nets or at least be a more reasonable choice. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (San Diego) – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship Kubernetes community conference which gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Learn more and register — get 10% off with the code KCNAPRACTICALAI19 Feel free to use the Convince Your Boss letter in part or in full so you can your team can attend. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:Anais Dotis-Georgiou – TwitterChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: InfluxData InfluxDB M-Competition benchmarks Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’ve mentioned ML/AI in the browser and in JS a bunch on this show, but we haven’t done a deep dive on the subject… until now! Victor Dibia helps us understand why people are interested in porting models to the browser and how people are using the functionality. We discuss TensorFlow.js and some applications built using TensorFlow.js Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. Changelog Weekly – We track, log, and contextualize what’s happening in software throughout the week and deliver it directly to your inbox on Sunday mornings. Head to changelog.com/weekly to browse the archives, subscribe, and push the easy button on your continuing education. Brain Science – For the curious! Brain Science is our new podcast exploring the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and being human. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to transform our lives. Featuring:Victor Dibia – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: data2vis TJbot TensorFlow.js Handtrack.js ConvNet Playground JS Party Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The United States has blacklisted several Chinese AI companies working in facial recognition and surveillance. Why? What are these companies doing exactly, and how does this fit into the international politics of AI? We dig into these questions and attempt to do some live fact finding in this episode. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China have been held in “re-education camps” Surge in Chinese research related to surveillance of Muslim minorities US AI Blacklist summary article from MIT Technology Review Hikvision Their website Here’s what you need to know about Hikvision, the camera maker behind China’s mass surveillance system China’s Hikvision Has Probably Filmed You iFlytek Their website Why 500 Million People in China Are Talking to This AI Megvii Their website Behind the Rise of China’s Facial-Recognition Giants Megvii, the Chinese startup unicorn known for facial recognition tech, files to go public in Hong Kong Yitu Their website AI Startup Yitu Seeks IPO on China’s New Tech Board This Chinese facial recognition start-up can identify a person in seconds Learning resources: TensorFlow 2.0 notebook Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chris and Daniel talk with Keith Lynn, AlphaPilot Program Manager at Lockheed Martin. AlphaPilot is an open innovation challenge, developing artificial intelligence for high-speed racing drones, created through a partnership between Lockheed Martin and The Drone Racing League (DRL). AlphaPilot challenged university teams from around the world to design AI capable of flying a drone without any human intervention or navigational pre-programming. Autonomous drones will race head-to-head through complex, three-dimensional tracks in DRL’s new Artificial Intelligence Robotic Racing (AIRR) Circuit. The winning team could win up to $2 million in prizes. Keith shares the incredible story of how AlphaPilot got started, just prior to its debut race in Orlando, which will be broadcast on NBC Sports. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Keith Lynn – LinkedInChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: AlphaPilot AlphaPilot – Lockheed Martin AI Drone Racing Innovation Challenge Lockheed Martin and Drone Racing League Announce 2019 AlphaPilot Teams Look ma, no hands: UCF arena to host fast-flying, autonomous drone racing in October Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin - Wikipedia The Drone Racing League The Drone Racing League - Wikipedia Lockheed Martin - Twitter The Drone Racing League - Twitter NVIDIA - Twitter Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019 The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes:AI in the majority world: NeurIPS publications by country “Best” universities according to the Times Higher Education ICLR in Ethiopia Google AI offices: Bangalore Ghana Beijing Deep Learning Indaba Southeast Asia Machine Learning School Facebook’s AI for India summit AI Singapore Indonesia AI research center Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe DistilBERT from Hugging Face Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning Papers with code Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!