Maarten Grootendorst: BERTopic, Data Science, Psychology | Learning from Machine Learning #1

Maarten Grootendorst, data scientist and expert in BERTopic, discusses his transition from psychology to machine learning, the appeal of machine learning and its applications, creating a strong foundation with BERTopic for topic modeling and trend analysis, trade-offs and intuitive design in API design, the future direction of BERTopic including integrating images and sound, differentiating between large language models and AGI, and finding inspiration in the field by combining different strengths.