Rachael Tatman โ€” Conversational AI and Linguistics

Weights & Biases ยท Beginner ยท๐Ÿ“ ML Fundamentals ยท6y ago
๐Ÿ… See how W&B is your secret weapon to make it onto the Kaggle leaderboards - https://www.wandb.com/kaggle Today our guest is Dr. Rachael Tatman! ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ปRachael is a developer advocate for Rasa, where she helps developers build and deploy conversational AI applications using their open source framework. ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ’ฌ She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington where she researched computational sociolinguistics, or how our social identity affects the way we use language in computational contexts. Previously she was a data scientist at Kaggle where sheโ€™s still a Grandmaster. ๐Ÿ’ปKeep up with Rachael on her website: http://www.rctatman.com/ ๐ŸฆFollow Rachael on twitter: https://twitter.com/rctatman Topics Covered: 0:00 Introduction 1:05 What it was like to work at Kaggle 3:55 Moving from academia to industry 6:31 Bigger goals of Kaggle 7:49 What is Rasa? 8:51 What makes you excited about conversational AI? 12:40 NLP improvements in the last year 16:10 What are the core challenges to make and deploy a chatbot? 19:20 Training data for chatbots 21:25 How do you approach reading papers? 25:40 Automatic speech recognition across demographic groups 30:40 What is an underrated aspect of machine learning? 32:30 Biggest challenge in ML? ๐ŸŽ™Get our podcasts on these platforms: Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify Google: http://wandb.me/gd_google YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube Weights and Biases makes developer tools for machine learning: record and visualize every detail of your research, collaborate easily, advance the state of the art - weโ€™re always free for academics and open source projects. Join our community of ML practitioners where we host AMA's, share interesting projects and meet other people working in Deep Learning: http://wandb.me/fs Our gallery features curated machine learning reports by researchers exploring deep learning techniques, Kagglers showcasing winning mode
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1 0. What is machine learning?
0. What is machine learning?
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 2 1. Build Your First Machine Learning Model
1. Build Your First Machine Learning Model
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 3 Intro to ML: Course Overview
Intro to ML: Course Overview
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 4 2. Multi-Layer Perceptrons
2. Multi-Layer Perceptrons
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 5 3. Convolutional Neural Networks
3. Convolutional Neural Networks
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 6 Weights & Biases at OpenAI
Weights & Biases at OpenAI
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 7 Why Experiment Tracking is Crucial to OpenAI
Why Experiment Tracking is Crucial to OpenAI
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 8 4. Autoencoders
4. Autoencoders
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 9 5. Sentiment Analysis
5. Sentiment Analysis
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 10 6. Recurrent Neural Networks [RNNs]
6. Recurrent Neural Networks [RNNs]
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 11 7. Text Generation using LSTMs and GRUs
7. Text Generation using LSTMs and GRUs
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 12 8. Text Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
8. Text Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
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 13 9. Hybrid LSTMs [Long Short-Term Memory]
9. Hybrid LSTMs [Long Short-Term Memory]
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 14 Toyota Research Institute on Experiment Tracking with Weights & Biases
Toyota Research Institute on Experiment Tracking with Weights & Biases
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 15 Weights and Biases - Developer Tools for Deep Learning
Weights and Biases - Developer Tools for Deep Learning
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 16 Introducing Weights & Biases
Introducing Weights & Biases
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 17 10. Seq2Seq Models
10. Seq2Seq Models
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 18 11. Transfer Learning for Domain-Specific Image Classification with Small Datasets
11. Transfer Learning for Domain-Specific Image Classification with Small Datasets
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 19 12. One-shot learning for teaching neural networks to classify objects never seen before
12. One-shot learning for teaching neural networks to classify objects never seen before
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 20 13. Speech Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks in Keras/TensorFlow
13. Speech Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks in Keras/TensorFlow
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 21 14. Data Augmentation | Keras
14. Data Augmentation | Keras
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 22 15. Batch Size and Learning Rate in CNNs
15. Batch Size and Learning Rate in CNNs
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 23 Applied Deep Learning Fellowship Overview and Project Selection with Josh Tobin (2019)
Applied Deep Learning Fellowship Overview and Project Selection with Josh Tobin (2019)
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 24 Grading Rubric for AI Applications with Sergey Karayev (2019)
Grading Rubric for AI Applications with Sergey Karayev (2019)
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 25 16. Video Frame Prediction using CNNs and LSTMs (2019)
16. Video Frame Prediction using CNNs and LSTMs (2019)
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 26 Image to LaTeX - Applied Deep Learning Fellowship (2019)
Image to LaTeX - Applied Deep Learning Fellowship (2019)
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 27 17. Build and Deploy an Emotion Classifier (2019)
17. Build and Deploy an Emotion Classifier (2019)
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 28 Applied Deep Learning - Data Management with Josh Tobin (2019)
Applied Deep Learning - Data Management with Josh Tobin (2019)
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 29 Snorkel: Programming Training Data with Paroma Varma of Stanford University (2019)
Snorkel: Programming Training Data with Paroma Varma of Stanford University (2019)
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 30 Applied Deep Learning - Troubleshooting and Debugging with Josh Tobin (2019)
Applied Deep Learning - Troubleshooting and Debugging with Josh Tobin (2019)
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 31 Troubleshooting and Iterating ML Models with Lee Redden (2019)
Troubleshooting and Iterating ML Models with Lee Redden (2019)
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 32 Designing a Machine Learning Project with Neal Khosla (2019)
Designing a Machine Learning Project with Neal Khosla (2019)
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 33 Lukas Beiwald on ML Tools and Experiment Management (2019)
Lukas Beiwald on ML Tools and Experiment Management (2019)
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 34 Building Machine Learning Teams with Josh Tobin (2019)
Building Machine Learning Teams with Josh Tobin (2019)
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 35 Pieter Abeel on Potential Deep Learning Research Directions (2019)
Pieter Abeel on Potential Deep Learning Research Directions (2019)
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 36 Testing and Deployment of Deep Learning Models with Josh Tobin (2019)
Testing and Deployment of Deep Learning Models with Josh Tobin (2019)
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 37 Five Lessons for Team-Oriented Research with Peter Welder (2019)
Five Lessons for Team-Oriented Research with Peter Welder (2019)
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 38 Applied Deep Learning - Rosanne Liu on AI Research (2019)
Applied Deep Learning - Rosanne Liu on AI Research (2019)
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 39 Making the Mid-career Leap from Urban Design to Deep Learning/Data Science
Making the Mid-career Leap from Urban Design to Deep Learning/Data Science
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 40 Organizing ML projects โ€” W&B walkthrough (2020)
Organizing ML projects โ€” W&B walkthrough (2020)
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 41 Brandon Rohrer โ€” Machine Learning in Production for Robots
Brandon Rohrer โ€” Machine Learning in Production for Robots
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 42 Nicolas Koumchatzky โ€” Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars
Nicolas Koumchatzky โ€” Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars
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 43 My experiments with Reinforcement Learning with Jariullah Safi
My experiments with Reinforcement Learning with Jariullah Safi
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 44 Applications of Machine Learning to COVID-19 Research with Isaac Godfried
Applications of Machine Learning to COVID-19 Research with Isaac Godfried
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 45 Testing Machine Learning Models with Eric Schles
Testing Machine Learning Models with Eric Schles
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 46 How Linear Algebra is not like Algebra with Charles Frye
How Linear Algebra is not like Algebra with Charles Frye
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 47 Predicting Protein Structures using Deep Learning with Jonathan King
Predicting Protein Structures using Deep Learning with Jonathan King
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 โ–ถ Rachael Tatman โ€” Conversational AI and Linguistics
Rachael Tatman โ€” Conversational AI and Linguistics
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 49 Reformer by Han Lee
Reformer by Han Lee
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 50 Sequence Models with Pujaa Rajan
Sequence Models with Pujaa Rajan
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 51 GitHub Actions & Machine Learning Workflows with Hamel Husain
GitHub Actions & Machine Learning Workflows with Hamel Husain
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 52 Look Mom, No Indices! Vector Calculus with the Frรฉchet Derivative by Charles Frye
Look Mom, No Indices! Vector Calculus with the Frรฉchet Derivative by Charles Frye
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 53 Jack Clark โ€” Building Trustworthy AI Systems
Jack Clark โ€” Building Trustworthy AI Systems
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 54 Surprising Utility of Surprise: Why ML Uses Negative Log Probabilities - Charles Frye
Surprising Utility of Surprise: Why ML Uses Negative Log Probabilities - Charles Frye
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 55 Track your machine learning experiments locally, with W&B Local - Chris Van Pelt
Track your machine learning experiments locally, with W&B Local - Chris Van Pelt
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 56 Antipatterns in open source research code with Jariullah Safi
Antipatterns in open source research code with Jariullah Safi
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 57 Attention for time series forecasting & COVID predictions - Isaac Godfried
Attention for time series forecasting & COVID predictions - Isaac Godfried
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 58 Made with ML - Goku Mohandas
Made with ML - Goku Mohandas
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 59 Angela & Danielle โ€” Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots
Angela & Danielle โ€” Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots
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 60 Deep Learning Salon by Weights & Biases
Deep Learning Salon by Weights & Biases
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Introduction
1:05 What it was like to work at Kaggle
3:55 Moving from academia to industry
6:31 Bigger goals of Kaggle
7:49 What is Rasa?
8:51 What makes you excited about conversational AI?
12:40 NLP improvements in the last year
16:10 What are the core challenges to make and deploy a chatbot?
19:20 Training data for chatbots
21:25 How do you approach reading papers?
25:40 Automatic speech recognition across demographic groups
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