Feather, Transformers, and AI

In this 1hr+ session, Nihir Vedd, founder of feather-ai and a PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing at Imperial College London, and I discuss everything from transformers in machine learning to NLP in stand-up comedy to AI model marketplaces. Tune in for a great session! 0:46 RICH Brunch - https://cherwell.org/2021/11/17/oxfords-first-hacker-house-for-the-rich-by-the-rich/ 3:31 London PhD life - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvedd/ 4:39 Natural Language Processing PhD project 6:26 Vision for Feature-ai and AI model marketplaces - https://www.feather-ai.com/ 15:10 AI model marketplaces and benefit to businesses and ads agencies 18:13 Inspiration for the feather name 22:04 Value of industry software engineering experience 31:36 Inspiration for the PhD project - child’s dream of a decision making machine 34:40 Discussion on natural language processing as a route to artificial general intelligence 41:27 Transformers - the machine learning type and the robot type! 47:55 Problems with Transformers 52:23 Problems with small datasets and machine learning 56:49 Research vs industry on machine learning model implementations and pipelines 1:01:58 Goals of OpenAI vs Deepmind 1:07:30 Deepmind effects on science - AlphaGo 1:08:07 Deepmind using NLP for collaborative storytelling and comedy and non-standard patterns of thinking https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc21/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ICCC_2021_paper_118.pdf 1:14:21 Areas in deep learning 1:16:45 Why start a YouTube channel? - Transformers, Traction & Feather-ai https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzzXdsl0U4E-pfMzG9oYKwg 1:20:08 Next steps and how to get in touch?