JHB - Fake News Detection, Predictions for 2020 and Beyond, and a Pub Quiz !

Welcome to our First Meetup for 2020 !

🗓Agenda ‣ Welcome and News in AI ‣ Retrieving Evidence for Fake News Detection Using Deep Learning by Bami Oni ‣ A New Era, 2020 and Beyond ! by Privolin Naidoo ‣ Pub Quiz

📰 Retrieving Evidence for Fake News detection using Deep Learning on AWS by Bami Oni In this session, we will look into how to identify misinformation (a type of Fake News) using Python TensorFlow-gpu, Word2Vec and Spacy. Will give recommendations on how to work with large data sets and highlight some AWS services that are useful for this task. For more information on Fact Extraction and Verification check out http://fever.ai.

✨ A New Era, 2020 and Beyond ! We will be taking a look at predictions made in the industry of Machine Learning and AI for 2020 and the next decade.

💥 Pub Quiz We're starting the year off with a bang ! We have decided to host another mini-pub quiz ! The quiz will feature topics across the AI space, things that happened this year and some popular culture. There's no pre-requisites, or sign-ups, just come through and join in on the fun.

There will be prizes !! :D

🎤 Bami Oni Oluwabamigbe (Bami) Oni is a Data scientist at Entelect with an interest and insight into all things AI. He is focused on solving business challenges and issues impacting society by bringing together people and disciplines, such as Computer Science, Machine Learning, and Mathematics. His strengths are in data and problem space exploration, conceptual understanding and solution insights.

ℹ️Info 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 trying to include 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 💯