#16 - Jeremy Howard on fast.ai
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Jeremy, welcome to Never See podcast, and, we've been we've been friends or friendly online, I think, for a while. You are the, the founder of fast.ai, which is this incredible course that's online. We both taught large online courses, so we kind of have talked about that. You're the founder of answer.ai. Before that, I think you were at Kaggle. Right? And, you're Australian. You have an interest in biomedicine, and I think we're also into, I mean, peace and trade broadly, internationalism, and and so on. Give me the spiel. Is that did I nail everything? Is that or give me Germany on Germany.
No. Pretty much. I mean, I say maybe Fast AI, most people know us for the course because that's how most people interact with us, but that was only one quarter of it. So Fast AI was all about trying to avoid a kind of massive centralization of power and inequality due to what my wife and I saw in 2012 as likely to be a rapid growth of AI. And so we wanted to So
similar to OpenAI's mission?
In theory, except we actually were open. Yeah. So Well,
at least that was their initial initial mission.
Yeah. So we basically decided to get AI into the hands of as many people as possible, including people with few resources. And so we did a lot of research to figure out how to make AI more accessible because at that time, only five labs in the world. And, yeah, the techniques to actually use AI in practice were not published. They were kind of like little Marketing themselves. Yeah. Yeah. So my wife, Rachel, actually asked, earlier when he was presenting in, like, 2012 or something about some of his work. And it's like, okay. So how did you actually do that bit? What weights did you use? You k
you mean a Kaggle?
No. At, that fast AI. Oh,
really? I didn't actually know that. Yeah.
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