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AI in the majority world and model distillation (Practical AI #58)
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:
- 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!