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Interactive/engaging Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Projects 2017-04-26 11:40:10 Post No. 60088865
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Interactive/engaging Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Projects
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2017-04-26 11:40:10
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Hey guys - I'm in high school (18) and I run my school's programming club. Every thursday we have a short (~45 minute) meeting in the middle of the school day just to talk about projects / catch up - we usually don't actually program during these in-school meetings - I just go up to the board and show everyone something cool on the projector, we talk about it, etc. etc.
I'm looking for some neat interactive/engaging ML projects that I could show everyone - NVIDIA just recently sent me this developer board with a ton of gpu cores on it so I can do CUDA stuff.
Some projects we've done in the past that everyone really liked were:
Neural Doodle - turn your 2 bit drawings into fine artworks; https://github.com/alexjc/neural-doodle
Rapping Neural Network (I actually wrote this!) - Neural network/markov chain combo that generates and "performs" rap songs with text to speech; https://github.com/robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network
Neural Style transfer - I think everyone has seen this one, turns photographs into "paintings" based off of reference images - there are tons of implementations of this just google it if you're unfamiliar.
DCGAN stuff - we looked at and messed around with a DCGAN to generate images - a lot of the images it generated looked really creepy so i just projected it up onto the board for a while and we talked about it. https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code
Does anyone know any other engaging ML/AI projects like these? It can really be anything - as long as you think that typical high-schoolers will find it interesting... if all else fails i think I'll just show them lyrebird.ai (this super cool machine learning project that can like, mimic anyone's voice after hearing them talk for a minute or two) and we'll talk about the ethical implications of it - i just really need some suggestions! thanks!
tl;dr what are some cool/engaging ML projects that would entertain high schoolers for about a half hour?
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>"programming club"
>Corporate interests
Every fucking time
OP, kill yourself. You're legitimately harming the community.
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>>60089748
wait who said anything about corporate interests??? besides the NVIDIA thing (they sent me the board for reasons completely unrelated to club) - i don't think there's anything 'corporate' about this...
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neural networks are a meme
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>>60090445
they're a pretty good meme desu
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>>60090403
the nvidia thing is the fucking definition of a corporate interest, even if they are completely unaware of the club
Did you think a big company like that would do something like that just so you personally have a better time? They're trying to get you (a smart young lad who has a good chance of making widely used software in their eyes) to program software optimized for their platform.
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>>60090825
okay yeah that is true - if it were some unheard of shit that they wanted me to program on i agree that would be harming the community, but it's a CUDA board - and
>there's really no good alternative to CUDA
>a bunch of great open source libraries (tensorflow, etc) interface with CUDA
so i mean, yeah i get what you're saying, and yeah it's definitely corporate interest, but i don't know if it's harming the community necessarily. NVIDIA has been pouring a bunch of money into open source stuff and AI research, not shilling but they seem pretty alright in this aspect
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>>60090903
kys
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>>60090903
intel is the only company that makes a worthwhile gpu with open source drivers
do you think intel is a good company that supports freedom?
check this out, you can gain marketshare with "free - but"s
it's free but it requires nonfree microcode
it's free but it requires this nonfree hardware only we make
etc etc
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