JHB - AI Writing Magical Stories with NLP, Building Self-Driving Cars, and More!

Welcome to our April Meetup. We've expanded the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also including a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with the community. So get in touch to speak 💯

Agenda - Welcome and News in AI - Sebenz.ai - job creation through gamified data labeling for machine learning by Alex Conway - How I built a self-driving car in under a week by Jason Webster - Creating Magical Stories with NLP by Dries Cronje - Lean Coffee Discussion (If time permits)

Pizza and drinks are generously provided by Entelect.

Creating Magical Stories with NLP Rita Skeeter used the Quick Quotes Quill to write sensational articles. We will be taking a journey on how we can use the latest in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to generate the next great Harry Potter adventure. By Dries Cronje (Deep Learning @Deep Learning Cafe)

How I built a self-driving car in under a week Self-driving cars are a major topic of interest in automobile research. As a machine-learning hobbyist intrigued by self-driving cars, I've always wanted to build one myself in a simulated environment. By using the power and accessibility of deep-learning, I achieved this in under a week. By Jason Webster (Data Scientist @Explore.ai)

Sebenz.ai - job creation through gamified data labeling for machine Sebenz.ai has 2 parts: 1. A machine learning (ML) labeling game that creates jobs for people in South Africa who earn money on their phones by labeling training data for ML models 2. An interface where customers upload their own unlabelled data and we train a custom ML model accessible by API. Sebenza means "work" in isiXhosa and isiZulu and our mission is to create 1 million jobs in Africa. There is 28% unemployment in South Africa right now. Most of those people have a smartphone and they all have free time. By Alex Conway (Head of Data Science @NumberBoost)