Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language
In 2017, Facebook published a paper called Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues. In this research, the reinforcement learning agents developed a mechanism of communication (w...
21 Juni 201923min
Under Resourced Languages
Priyanka Biswas joins us in this episode to discuss natural language processing for languages that do not have as many resources as those that are more commonly studied such as English. Successful NL...
15 Juni 201916min
Named Entity Recognition
Kyle and Linh Da discuss the class of approaches called "Named Entity Recognition" or NER. NER algorithms take any string as input and return a list of "entities" - specific facts and agents in the t...
8 Juni 201917min
The Death of a Language
USC students from the CAIS++ student organization have created a variety of novel projects under the mission statement of "artificial intelligence for social good". In this episode, Kyle interviews Za...
1 Juni 201920min
Neural Turing Machines
Kyle and Linh Da discuss the concepts behind the neural Turing machine.
25 Maj 201925min
Data Infrastructure in the Cloud
Kyle chats with Rohan Kumar about hyperscale, data at the edge, and a variety of other trends in data engineering in the cloud.
18 Maj 201930min
NCAA Predictions on Spark
In this episode, Kyle interviews Laura Edell at MS Build 2019. The conversation covers a number of topics, notably her NCAA Final 4 prediction model.
11 Maj 201923min
The Transformer
Kyle and Linhda discuss attention and the transformer - an encoder/decoder architecture that extends the basic ideas of vector embeddings like word2vec into a more contextual use case.
3 Maj 201915min
