Name: AI For Good: In Conversation with Prof Yoshua Bengio and Dr Kai-Fu Lee
Start: 2020-10-01T17:35:00Z
End: 2020-10-01T17:35:58.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Element AI develops AI-powered solutions and services that help people and machines work smarter, together. Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs including JF Gagné and A.M.Turing Award recipient, Yoshua Bengio, PhD, Element AI turns cutting-edge fundamental research into software solutions that exponentially learn and improve. Its end-to-end offering includes advisory services, AI enablement tools and products that help large organizations operationalize AI for real business impact. Element AI maintains a strong connection to academia through research collaborations and takes a leadership position in policymaking around the impact of AI technology on society.

Learn how to speed up AI code with Christian Hudon, Applied Research Scientist at Element AI. He will talk about how to profile and accelerate a PyTorch model, using Element AI N-Beats as an example.
This presentation is perfect for both AI developers who productize models and practitioners who create models and want their training to go faster.
It is also meant as a window into how you could dive in head first with AI models at Element AI.
Interested in joining our awesome dev team at Element AI? See our job openings here: www.elementai.com/careers.

ABOUT CHRISTIAN

Githhub: https://github.com/chrish42

When did you learn to code?

I learned to code as a kid, starting with BASIC on this thing called a pocket computer — this one, actually: http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc3.html. My first real computer was a Commodore 64, which was my first real computer. My two other formative early experiences were learning C once we got our first PC, and working through the SICP book for a course dedicated to that book during my bachelors in Computer Engineering.

What's your coding pet peeve?

Definitely people who write code only for computers and not for their human audiences too.

What are your favorite programming languages?

My favorite high-level language is still Python, even after 20+ years. It still hits the sweet spot between expressiveness, conciseness, readability and ease of use. 

What's your go-to coding playlist (or podcast)?

Mostly silence, actually. But for the occasions that I do, it's mostly white noise, or baroque classical music. I find most other music too distracting, especially anything with lyrics, or even with too much of a musical "story".

Speed Up your AI Code

This webinar stars Jacomo Carbo, Chief Science Officer at QuantumBlack and Nicolas Chapados, Chief Science Officer at Element AI. They discuss the technical and business gains in time-series forecasting and provide insights into tackling the challenges that lie ahead. Time-series forecasting analyzes past data to predict what might happen in the future. It is central to just about every industry, and for good reason: sometimes even a tiny improvement in accuracy (eg, better prediction of inventory turnover, budget needs, consumer trends) can translate into millions of dollars of operational savings or revenue generation. Until recently, pure machine learning models for time-series forecasting produced underwhelming results, but advances in other areas, such as transfer learning and generalization, have changed the game.

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In this online event, Prof Yoshua Bengio and Dr Kai-Fu Lee explored the promise of AI for humanity, to help our future economy and society be more resilient, liveable and sustainable, particularly as we begin to rebuild in the COVID-19 era. This event was held as part of the Deep Tech for Good initiative by SGInnovate, in partnership with global organizations that include Element AI.

AI For Good: In Conversation with Prof Yoshua Bengio and Dr Kai-Fu Lee

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