Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1

Pausing to think about scikit-learn & OpenAI o1

Author: Practical AI LLC September 17, 2024 Duration: 50:10

Recently the company stewarding the open source library scikit-learn announced their seed funding. Also, OpenAI released “o1” with new behavior in which it pauses to “think” about complex tasks. Chris and Daniel take some time to do their own thinking about o1 and the contrast to the scikit-learn ecosystem, which has the goal to promote “data science that you own.”


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