The influence of open source on AI development (Practical AI #57)

The All Things Open conference is happening soon, and we snagged one of their speakers to discuss open source and AI. Samuel Taylor talks about the essential role that open source is playing in AI development and research, and he gives us some tips on choosing AI-related side projects.

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• All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019

Featuring:

• Samuel Taylor – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Tweet and mention @Changelog or @PracticalAIFM for a chance to win 1 of 5 free passes to the conference!

“I want a free pass to @AllThingsOpen because…”

• All Things Open
• Samuel’s All Things Open talk description
• Episode #17 - Fighting bias in hiring
• Jupyter
• Pandas
• Scikit-learn

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!