(Teaching) AI for Newcomers:
Art/Fun meet business?
Lynn Cherny (@arnicas)
Asst. Professor Data Science, EMLyon Business School
data.em-lyon.com
Why should non-technical people care?
There's a lot of "scare" hype
- Machines will take your job
- Machines will take your business
- Bias/algorithm abuse will hurt you
- You are a loser if you don't get educated (business hype)
The "tech lust" of uneducated business folks is unhealthy.
My teaching goal is to educate non-technical students about AI.
- How does it work? (the hardest part.)
- What are some applications now?
- How do we think creatively about products using AI (in a non-ignorant way)?
- What are the limits - biases, ethics, tools, data, training issues....
Word2Vec
You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
-John Firth, 1957
article by Zareen Farooqui, link
(animated gif that might not render...)
all results are a function of the data we used to feed our algorithm, not objective truth; so it is easy to get stereotypes like doctor - man + woman = nurse.
https://lamyiowce.github.io/word2viz/
try: "doctor, nurse", "researcher,teacher", "scientist"
http://vectors.nlpl.eu/explore/embeddings/en/calculator/#
Projector Demo
(If you like this, there are a ton of great visual demo/experiments from Google's Arts&Culture team in Paris.)
Business use - search!
Item_3469
+ pregnant
Text Generation
Janelle Shane's Work
Belle Inn
Crow’s Rest
Mingside Arms
Crown & Fathous
Stonebredde Arms
Old Festerlan
Burn Horse Hotel
Doss of Wulling of Stank
Shore’s Castle Crustle Hotel
Lick Inn
Odd Lingwion
Lambles
Loons Hall
Thringeron Arms
Flint Horse
The All House
Dean & Funtling
Old Hell Kick
Jolly Trocks
Wallow Arms
Karpathy's Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNN's post
Generative
pub names:
Generative Beer Names:
Students Tried It Too...
Tofe Mexican
Thin’s Mall
Natural Coffeeline Kitchen
Pango Garden
The Restaurant Grill
Datine Mexican Cafe
Pizza Pro
Pizzu Mexican Cuisine
Sumon Chicago
Taco Peate Inn
Pizza Postaurant
The Pizza & Cafe
Cafe Food
Food’s India
Vegetarine Pizza
Salad Cafe
Salad Star Cafe
Suba Pizza & Pizza
Vegan / Vegetarian Restaurant Names
Vegan Cafe
The Steakhora Cafe
Kitchen Vegan Restaurant
Coras Curb Cafe
The Cafe Cafe
Sanotmouse Bitchen Restaurant
Thai Pizza
Planet Smouydex Restaurant
Wig Vegan Pizza
The Pizza Den
Bar Cafe [Student: “where you can have coffee and alcohol yeahhhhh”]
Same Cafe Cafe Fart
"Chick Chick Chick Chick Chick Chicken Cafe"
Cool, but wat?
>grep Chick data/vegetarian_vegan_names.txt
Lo-lo's Chicken & Waffles
Natural Chicken Grill
The Chubby Chickpea - Closed
Healthy Chicken Cafe
Chubsy Wubsy Pizza & Chicken
New Jumbo Fried Chicken and Pizza
Chick-o-pea's
Vitamin Chick
Natural Chicken Grill
Chick-fil-a Cedar Hill
Natural Chicken Grill
Chickpeas Vegetarian
Chicken Al Mattone - Frisco
Lebanese Chicken - Hamtramck
Chickpeas - Closed
Fiesty Chicken and Grill
Texas Fried Chicken & Pizza
Bbq Chicken Food Truck
Chicken Express
The Chicken Wing District.
Best Chicken
Harvell's Chicken On A Stick
Natural Chicken Grill
Chickie Wah Wah
Natural Chicken Grill
Chickpeas Vegetarian
Chicken Al Mattone - Frisco
Lebanese Chicken - Hamtramck
Mexican Grilled Chicken
The Chubby Chickpea - Closed
Chicken Cabaret
Chickpeas Vegetarian
Chick-fil-a of Dover - Closed
Feisty Chicken Grill
Chick-o-pea's
Chickpea Mediterranean Grill
Natural Chicken Grill
Fox's Pizza & Chester Fried Chicken
Chick-o-pea's
Vitamin Chick
Chickpeas - Closed
Aunt Norma's Fried Chicken & Title Loans
California Chicken Cafe
Best Chicken
Harvell's Chicken On A Stick
The Chicken Wing District.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
New York Pizza and Chicken
Chicken and Guns
"garbage in, garbage out"
French Prenoms
Alla
Alia
Lana
Mana
Yanny
Amina
Assia
Ismine
Celiase
Alin
Amgant
Ellia
Aliane
Lutien
Alistine
Janon
Elan
Taril
Eline
Ratha
Carline
Amenike
Yudi
Phatiama
Vix
Kesmeniad
Aledya
Adsa
Eliste
Emian
Bremin
Thillian
Elban
Cessa
Charlé
Alisa
Alin
French Movies
LES PEURS DU MAINE
LE FEMMES DU MANDE
LA PARIS DE LA VIE
LES AMOURS DE LA VIE
LA VIE LA VIE
LA VIE LE FRANDE
LA FRANDE LA VIE
LES PAMIS FILLE
LE PRUIS ET L'AUME DE MAIS ET LA MOI
LES PANTE DE MAIS DE LA MANT
LA TRESTE T'AIMER
Businesses: Generate brand names
Not AI, but it could be! (link)
Images
The Experience of Labeling Training Data (we need better tools)
(you can put image links in google sheets, did you know?)
Showing Them Model Testing After Training On 4 Categories
Again: "Garbage in, garbage out."
Creativity Apps: Style Transfer
FaceApp apologizes for building a racist AI
We need more teaching tools.
YAY!
Text
distill.pub: Interactive.
If you like this kind of thing...
OpenVis Conf - a conference on open source data visualization, with 3 distill.pub authors
Workshops on May 16
+ mini-conf on datavis in Lyon on May 17, afternoon
Keep an eye on data.em-lyon.com (or @arnicas on Twitter)
- Arvind Satyanarayan (Google/MIT) - Building Blocks of Interpretability
- Yannick Assogba (Google) - Deeplearn.js
- Jim Vallandingham - TBD
- Gabriel Florit (Washington Post) - TBD
- Lane Harrison (Worcester Polytechnic) - TBD