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Raphaël Millière: The Vector Grounding Problem and Self-Consciousness

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Using NLP to Analyze a Large Corpus of Reports on Psychoactive Compounds

The speaker started their PhD at Oxford and discovered a large corpus of reports that interested them for their philosophical research./nThe speaker scraped a database with around 30,000 reports and realized it was too large to be analyzed qualitatively./nThe speaker saw an opportunity to use natural language processing algorithms to analyze the database./nThis happened around 2015, before transformer papers and large language models were introduced./nThe speaker trained their own model, called a Dr. Weck model, on the corpus.

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