Listen "BERT: one NLP model to rule them all"
Episode Synopsis
Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.
This week we discuss BERT, a new method of pre-training language representations from Google for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Then we tackle Facebook’s Horizon, the first open source reinforcement learning platform for large-scale products and services. We also address synthetic data, and suggest a few learning resources.
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Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:News/Discussion:
Is artificial intelligence set to become art’s next medium?
BERT (a new method for obtaining rich contextual language representations during pre-training):
Google research article
TensorFlow BERT
BERT paper
PyTorch BERT
NY Times article
Example Colab notebook
BERT explained article
Transformer paper
Google Open Sources BERT to Train Natural Language Models Without Breaking the Bank
Horizon: The first open source reinforcement learning platform for large-scale products and services
Does Synthetic Data Hold The Secret To Artificial Intelligence?
AI Experts: Moving forward with AI likely a series of small steps, not giant leaps
Learning resources:
The Backpropagation Algorithm Demystified
Books
“Grokking Deep Learning” by Andrew Trask
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