Chris and Daniel help us wade through the week’s AI news, including open ML challenges from Intel and National Geographic, Henry Kissinger’s views on AI, and a model that can detect personality based on eye movements. They also point out some useful resources to learn more about pandas, the vim editor, and AI algorithms.

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

News:

• RFP for National Geographic AI earth innovation
• Intel - AI Interplanetary challenge
• App that lets Alexa read sign language
• The mythos of model interpretability
• Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Your Personality By Simply Tracking Your Eyes
• forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/07/07/think-you-know-how-disruptive-artificial-intelligence-is-think-again/amp">Think You Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? Think Again.
• How the Enlightenment Ends

Learning resources:

• Pandas tips and tricks
• Mastering vim quickly
• An introduction to Gradient Descent Algorithm
• Introducing capsule networks

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