Fast.AI – Bringing "Deep Learning" To The Mainstream

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

"Deep Learning" is an area in artificial intelligence research and design where a "ton of breakthroughs are happening right now," says Fast.AI co-founder Rachel Thomas. Fast.AI's mission in the AI space is to make Deep Learning more accessible to more people. Where before, you'd need graduate-to-Ph.D.-level work in math just to understand what's going on, now Fast.AI's course ware makes Deep Learning techniques available to everyday coders.
In the last five to six years, Deep Learning has become a hot topic. Technically, Deep Learning is like any other kind of AI, in that it makes your computer behave intelligently. This has been around for decades. The difference is, in the last few years, it's started to take off as sub-field of its own. Deep Learning algorithms mimic neural networks in the brain. And the technology is improving exponentially every year, exceeding human intelligence in some cases. By Deep Learning," Fast.AI co-founders Rachel Thomas and Jeremy Howard are referring to a very specific class of algorithms applied to specific problems, for example, transcribing speech to text.
Fundamentally, Fast.AI is an education company. The course offered is free. The goal is to help companies train the smart employees they already have to utilize Deep Learning technology.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
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0:23.0	blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.4	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. Today, I have two interesting guests
0:31.0	from a company called Fast.A.I, Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas, founding researchers they call themselves.
0:39.3	How are you guys doing?
0:40.3	Hi there.
0:41.3	We're doing well.
0:42.3	Good. Welcome to the FutureTech podcast. Thanks so much for coming. I appreciate it.
0:47.3	Thank you. It's great to be here.
0:48.3	Thank you, Rich.
0:49.3	Yeah. So for starters, I always find it's better to have the guests introduce themselves and tell what they do.
0:56.3	You know, I tend to screw it up. So, yeah, if you guys would, you know, please let me know what
1:00.5	fast.a.I does and what you guys do there. Okay. Fast.com AI is trying to make deep learning,
1:06.2	which is a kind of area of AI where a ton of breakthroughs are happening right now, more accessible
1:12.1	and easier to use. And so traditionally, a lot of materials in this field kind of assume
1:18.3	you have a graduate level math background and are very exclusive. And we created a course,
1:23.9	kind of practical course for coders to kind of tear down that exclusiveness and make
1:29.0	this field more accessible. We also do research into foundational methods which can make it
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