50 Most Influential AI Leaders In India – 2021

And other top stories in this week's Belamy

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50 Most Influential AI Leaders In India – 2021

Analytics India Magazine brings to you its annual list of the 50 Most Influential AI Leaders In India for the year 2021. Selected on the basis of the expertise they hold in the field of AI and Data Science, the list recognises the exceptional work these professionals have accomplished over the last year.

Leaders in this list have shown great ability to lead their teams to develop state-of-the-art AI solutions and support their companies or clients. Despite the pandemic, they have shown the potential in adapting to different circumstances to drive innovation and growth.

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Adani’s Ambitious Project

‘Ferrari of the digital world’ is how Gautam Adani, industrialist and the chairman of the Adani Group, referred to the newly incorporated Adani Digital Labs Pvt Ltd (ADLPL). The Adani Digital Lab, a wholly-owned arm of Adani Enterprises which is yet to commence operations, aims to transform consumer business. 

With ADLPL, the Adani group makes inroads into the list that contains names like Tata, Reliance, and ITC, which offer multiple services through a single-window — also called the super app.

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Data Science Hiring Process At MFine

MFine’s data science team has been instrumental in everything it does today. The data science team is part of the product and technology team with about eight members. The company has subdivided the team based on the kinds of medical units it receives from its patients on the MFine platform.

These happen to be computer vision (to look at images of patients’ problems or images of one’s reports), NLP (conversations between doctor and patient), and machine learning specialists (for reasoning). 

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Sketch Note of the week

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The End Of ImageNet

Earlier this week, researchers from the University of Oxford released an ImageNet replacement for a self-supervised pre-training dataset called PASS, or Picture without humAns for Self-Supervision. Will this be the end of ImageNet as we know it or the beginning of something great?

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Hands-on Guides for ML Developers

+ A Practitioners Guide to All New Features in SciKit-Learn 1.0

+ A Complete Guide to Weak Supervision in Machine Learning

+ Top Python Libraries to Get Historical Stock Data (With Code)

+ How to Learn From Streaming Data with Creme in Python?

+ A Beginner’s Guide to Extreme Learning Machine

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PEOPLE & STARTUPS

+ IoT Has Not Lived Up To The Hype: Sunil David, AT&T (India)

+ Conversation With Erad Fridman, CEO at Fluxon

+ How This Startup Can Turn A CCTV System Into Video Analytics Solution

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Salesforce CodeT5 vs Github Copilot

The CodeT5 by Salesforce is an open-source machine learning tool that can understand and readily generate code in real-time. It is an identifier-aware unified pre-trained coder-encoder tool that enables a wide range of code intelligence applications.

Github Copilot is a service tool created by GitHub and OpenAI and is described as an AI pair programmer. It is a plugin to Visual Studio Code and auto-generates code based on the current file’s contents and the current cursor location.

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The Issue Of Faulty Reward Functions In the Wild

In 2016, OpenAI published a blog post, ‘Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild’, discussing an AI model that got creative and found a ‘counterintuitive’ way to optimise and reach its goal. The company realised the need to design a safe AI system to avoid misinterpretation of the specified goals.

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BOTTOM OF THE NEWS

Here's what all happened last week.

+ Analytics Firm Ugam Plans To Hire 1000 Freshers by January 2022

+ Sanjay Bhargava Joins SpaceX As Starlink Country Director India

+ Amazon To Train Over 1 Lakh Indian Students For Computer Science Education

+ IIT Roorkee Launches A New School for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

+ The Much Talked About Free Java License Is Here