Ghosts of Artificial Intelligence
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Join your fellow data visualizers on Tuesday October 25th at Chief (1800 Massachusetts Ave NW) for "Facing" Artificial Intelligence. Just in time for Halloween, Michael Flynn showcases his graduate research on neural networks and facial recognition to D.C.’s Data Community – be amazed as machine learning algorithms allow a computer to display any human emotion on a digital face, be astonished by the dark magic of decompression algorithms applied to machine vision, be spellbound as Michael uses his coding sorcery to transform pixelated blobs into PEOPLE!!
Were these initial ghostly images output of a partially trained Neural Network, or something more?
https://zo7.github.io/img/2016-09-25-generating-faces/sgd.jpg
Was the Neural Network learning, or was there a "deeper" connection to another dimension?
https://zo7.github.io/img/2016-09-25-generating-faces/random-2.jpg
Read all about Michael's accounts in his blog on generating faces (https://zo7.github.io/blog/2016/09/25/generating-faces.html).
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Agenda
6:30 - 7:10 - Networking
7:10 – 7:20 – Introductions and Sponsors
7:20 – 8:20 – Michael Flynn
8:20 - 8:40 – Q & A
8:40 - Data Drinks
More about Michael Flynn
In addition to being a Mad Data Scientist – Michael Flynn is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University researching computer vision models for intelligent video processing. A musician-turned-electrical-engineer-turned-computer-scientist, he is interested in discovering how we can exploit advancements in deep learning and computer vision to create compelling artwork and develop a more intuitive sense for how these complex systems work. Prior to moving to Baltimore, Flynn lived in Richmond, Virginia where he worked for several local startups as a software developer and studied electrical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Ghosts of Artificial Intelligence