The Tech’o’Space Podcast Ep 106 - Low Resources, High Impact: How NLP Illuminates AI's Blind Spots

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. John E. Ortega who is the Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Columbia University, New York and, NLP Researcher and Instructor at New York University. He is based out of New York, USAa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry and academic space.b) Provides an insight into his current tenure as the Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Columbia University in New York.c) His take on the prime focus of NLP and AI or GenAI in the enterprise and academic space.d) Sheds some spotlight into worked as a director of AI and also talks about starting two businesses to the listeners around the world.e) Gives an overview of being an Advisor for Reulay Inc for on the lines of AI in different facets and having said that mentions about applying the use case of AI for the Mental Health Care industry.f) His view on combining the worlds of Big Data and NLP and mentions about the project where he has applied these two skills for.g) Shares few of the interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.h) His take on the importance of Low Resource Languages.