Clément Delangue, the co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, joined us to discuss fun, social, and conversational AI. Clem explained why social AI is important, what products they are building (social AIs who learn to chit-chat, talk sassy and trades selfies with you), and how this intersects with the latest research in AI for natural language. He also shared his vision for how AI for natural language with develop over the next few years.

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Featuring:

• Clément Delangue – Twitter, LinkedIn, Website
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Hugging Face
• Voice Boloss
• Transformer model episodes:
  • BERT
  • GPT-2
• Hugging Face’s Pytorch pre-trained model repo
• Rasa
• Lyrebird
• Allen Institute for AI
• AllenNLP
• OpenAI
• Fast.ai
• Betaworks Synthetic camp

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!