As the LaMDA "sentience" hubbub highlights, Natural Language Processing is perhaps the most exciting and rapidly accelerating area of Machine Learning. Hear all about NLP from the deep expert Rongyao HUANG.

(LaMDA is definitely not sentient, by the way... but it is an impressive display of state-of-the-art conversational machine capabilities.)

Rongyao:
• Is Lead Data Scientist at CB Insights, a marketing intelligence platform.
• Previously she worked as a data scientist at a number of other New York start-ups and as a quantitative research assistant at Columbia University.
• She holds a masters in research methodology and quantitative methods from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Today’s episode is more on the technical side so will appeal primarily to practicing data scientists, however the second half of the episode does contain general sage guidance for anyone seeking to navigate career options as well as to balance personal and professional obligations.

In today’s episode, Rongyao details:
• The evolution of NLP techniques over the past decade through to the large transformer models of today.
• The practical implications of this dramatic NLP evolution.
• How the “scaling law” will impact NLP model capabilities over the coming decade.
• The major limitations of today’s NLP approaches and how we might overcome them.
• Her Bauhaus-inspired model for effective data science.
• Her pathfinding model for making effective career choices.
• Her top tips for staying sane while juggling career and family.

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