In the second episode of Deep Neural Notebooks, I talk with Thomas Wolf.
Thomas is the Chief Science Officer at HuggingFace, a Brooklyn based start-up that aims at building the first truly social artificial intelligence. His interesting background includes a PhD in Quantum Physics and a degree in Law, followed by a five-year long career as a Patent Attorney, before his passion for Science brought him to HuggingFace. Thomas, and his team at HuggingFace believes in the power of Open Source and have been active contributors on Github, sharing their research and progress, allowing the development of technology for the better.
In this episode, we talk about his diverse career background- his journey from Physics to Law to Deep Learning and Conversational Agents. We also talk about the vision at HuggingFace, the challenges in building a long-term, companion-like Conversational Agent, the state of Natural Language Processing, and how we can do better.
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Links:
Thomas Wolf: https://twitter.com/Thom_Wolf , http://thomwolf.io/
HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co
HuggingFace’s Open Source Chatbot Repository (NeurIPS’18 ConvAI2 submission): https://github.com/huggingface/transfer-learning-conv-ai
Magic-Sand: https://github.com/thomwolf/Magic-Sand
Magic-Sand tutorial: https://imgur.com/gallery/Q86wR
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:40 Starting with programming
04:55 Physics to Law to HuggingFace
11:30 Not pursuing PhD at MIT
16:00 Self education in Machine Learning
20:50 Beginning with NLP
23:30 ‘HuggingFace’ – How the name came about
25:00 Building a different kind of intelligence
28:20 The challenges in building a Conversational Agent
30:57 Metrics to evaluate performance
34:30 Inculcating emotional intelligence
38:00 Vision at HuggingFace
42:30 Respecting user privacy
46:15 Tackling data bias
48:30 Channels for Human-Machine interaction
50:50 Insights from how toddlers learn
53:40 Magic Sand
56:45 Advice to beginners
Deep Neural Notebooks:
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Connect:
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