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In this episode I am with Kevin McNamara, founder and CEO of Parallel Domain. We speak about a very effective method to generate synthetic data that is currently in production at Parallel Domain. Enjoy the show!     References Parallel Domain Synthetic Data Improves Cyclist Detection (blog post): https://paralleldomain.com/parallel-domain-synthetic-data-improves-cyclist-detection/    Beating the State of the Art in Object Tracking with Synthetic Data: https://paralleldomain.com/beating-the-state-of-the-art-in-object-tracking-with-synthetic-data/    Parallel Domain Open Synthetic Dataset: https://paralleldomain.com/open-datasets/bicycle-detection    How Toyota Research Institute Trains Better Computer Vision Models with PD Synthetic Data (interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIYttoVxf2w   Career Opportunities: https://paralleldomain.com/careers

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Is it possible to reconstruct a 3D model from a simple image? Under certain constraints, it is! In this episode I tell you how.   Our Sponsors Explore the Complex World of Regulations. Compliance can be overwhelming. Multiple frameworks. Overlapping requirements. Let Arctic Wolf be your guide. Check it out at https://arcticwolf.com/datascience   Amethix works to create and maximize the impact of the world’s leading corporations and startups, so they can create a better future for everyone they serve. We provide solutions in AI/ML, Fintech, Healthcare/RWE, and Predictive maintenance.   References https://github.com/isl-org/Open3D https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/glpn https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07436  

What if we borrowed from physics some theories that would interpret deep learning and machine learning in general? Here is a list of plausible ways to interpret our beloved ML models and understand why they works, or they don't. Enjoy the show! Our Sponsors NordPass Business has developed a password manager, that will save you a lot of time and energy whenever you  need access to business accounts, work across devices, even with the other members of your team, or whenever you need to share sensitive data with your colleagues, or make payments efficiently. All this with the highest standard of cyber secure technology. See NordPass Business in action now with a 3-month free trial here https://nordpass.com/DATASCIENCE with codeDATASCIENCE     Amethix works to create and maximize the impact of the world’s leading corporations and startups, so they can create a better future for everyone they serve. We provide solutions in AI/ML, Fintech, Healthcare/RWE, and Predictive maintenance.  

If you think that the problem of self-driving cars has been solved, think twice. As a matter of fact, the problem of self-driving cars cannot be solved with the technical solutions that companies are currently considering. Don't get fooled by marketing and PR on social media. Whoever is telling you they solved the problem of driving a vehicle fully autonomously, they are lying. Here is why.   Our Sponsors Explore the Complex World of Regulations. Compliance can be overwhelming. Multiple frameworks. Overlapping requirements. Let Arctic Wolf be your guide. Check it out at https://arcticwolf.com/datascience   Amethix works to create and maximize the impact of the world’s leading corporations and startups, so they can create a better future for everyone they serve. We provide solutions in AI/ML, Fintech, Healthcare/RWE, and Predictive maintenance.

Let's look at the history of data platforms. How did they evolve? Why? Shall I switch to the latest architecture? Enjoy the show!   Our Sponsors Explore the Complex World of Regulations. Compliance can be overwhelming. Multiple frameworks. Overlapping requirements. Let Arctic Wolf be your guide. Check it out at https://arcticwolf.com/datascience   Amethix works to create and maximize the impact of the world’s leading corporations and startups, so they can create a better future for everyone they serve. We provide solutions in AI/ML, Fintech, Healthcare/RWE, and Predictive maintenance.

Companies and other business entities are actively involved in defining data products and applied research every year. Academia has always played a role in creating new methods and solutions/algorithms in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, there is doubt about how powerful and effective such research efforts are. Is studying AI in academia a waste of time?   Our Sponsors Ready to advance your career in data science? University of Cincinnati Online offers nationally recognized educational programs in business analytics and information systems. Predictive Analytics Today named UC as the No.1 MS Data Science school in the country and is nationally recognized with a proven track record of placing students at high-profile companies such as Google, Amazon and P&G.  Discover more about the University of Cincinnati’s 100% online master’s degree programs at online.uc.edu/obais    Amethix works to create and maximize the impact of the world’s leading corporations and startups, so they can create a better future for everyone they serve. We provide solutions in AI/ML, Fintech, Healthcare/RWE, and Predictive maintenance.  

There are many solutions to private machine learning. I am pretty confident when I say that the one we are speaking in this episode is probably one of the most feasible and reliable. I am with Daniel Huynh, CEO of Mithril Security,  a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique with a specialisation in AI and data science. He worked at Microsoft on Privacy Enhancing Technologies under the office of the CTO of Microsoft France. He has written articles on Homomorphic Encryptions with the CKKS explained series (https://blog.openmined.org/ckks-explained-part-1-simple-encoding-and-decoding/). He is now focusing on Confidential Computing at Mithril Security and has written extensive articles on the topic: https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/.  In this show we speak about confidential computing, SGX and private machine learning   References Mithril Security: https://www.mithrilsecurity.io/  BindAI GitHub: https://github.com/mithril-security/blindai  Use cases for BlindAI:Deploy Transformers models with confidentiality: https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/transformers-with-confidentiality/ Confidential medical image analysis with COVID-Net and BlindAI: https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/confidential-covidnet-with-blindai/  Build a privacy-by-design voice assistant with BlindAI: https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/privacy-voice-ai-with-blindai/  Confidential Computing Explained: https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/confidential-computing-explained-part-1-introduction/  Confidential Computing Consortium: https://confidentialcomputing.io/  Confidential Computing White Papers: https://confidentialcomputing.io/white-papers-reports/  List of Intel processors with Intel SGX:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000028173/processors.html  https://github.com/ayeks/SGX-hardware  Azure Confidential Computing VMs with SGX:Azure Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/confidential-computing-enclaves  How to deploy BlindAI on Azure: https://docs.mithrilsecurity.io/getting-started/cloud-deployment/azure-dcsv3  Confidential Computing 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77U12Ss38Zc  Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/  ONNX: https://github.com/onnx/onnx Tract, a Rust inference engine for ONNX models: https://github.com/sonos/tract  

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That deep learning alone is not sufficient to solve artificial general intelligence, is more and more accepted statement. Generalist agents have great properties that can overcome some of the limitations of single-task deep learning models. Be aware, we are still far from AGI, though.   So what are generalist agents?   References https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.06175