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Big Science and Embodied Learning at Hugging Face 🤗 with Thomas Wolf - #564

Mar 21, 2022

Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer at Hugging Face, shares his fascinating journey from quantum physics and patent law to machine learning. He discusses the BigScience project, which unites over 1,000 researchers to create a vast multilingual dataset, emphasizing the importance of diverse data and ethical AI. The conversation dives into the innovations of transformers in NLP, multimodality, and the implications for the metaverse. Thomas also touches on his new book and the evolving landscape of AI, advocating for collaborative and responsible advancements.

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Intro

6min

Building Responsible AI Together

13min

Evaluating Models Through Diverse Data Curation

2min

Collaborative Innovations in Language Models

12min

Understanding Transformers: Simplifying Complexities and Emphasizing Data

2min

Evaluating Data Quality: Insights from a Measurement Tool

2min

Innovations in Machine Learning and NLP

10min

Today we’re joined by Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer at Hugging Face 🤗. We cover a ton of ground In our conversation, starting with Thomas’ interesting backstory as a quantum physicist and patent lawyer, and how that lead him to a career in machine learning. We explore how Hugging Face began, what the current direction is for the company, and how much of their focus is NLP and language models versus other disciplines. We also discuss the BigScience project, a year-long research workshop where 1000+ researchers of all backgrounds and disciplines have come together to create an 800GB multilingual dataset and model. We talk through their approach to curating the dataset, model evaluation at this scale, and how they differentiate their work from projects like Eluther AI. Finally, we dig into Thomas’ work on multimodality, his thoughts on the metaverse, his new book NLP with Transformers, and much more!

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