AIs that look human and create portraits of humans (Practical AI #18)

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In this new and updates show, Daniel and Chris discuss, among other things, efforts to use AI in art and efforts to make AI interfaces look human. They also discuss some learning resources related to neural nets, AI fairness, and reinforcement learning.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

News from Daniel:

• AI portrait up for auction
• Graph ML related things:
  • Deepmind Graphnet library
  • Knowledge Graphs and ML
  • Semantic Scholar
• CSV conf

News from Chris:

• Magic Leap’s new AI assistant looks alarmingly human
• MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing
• Deep-learning algorithm identifies dense tissue in mammograms

Learning resources:

• Neural network playground
• IBM AI Fairness 360
• Towards Data Science
• Artificial Intelligence: What’s The Difference Between Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning?

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!