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559: GPT-3 for Natural Language Processing

Mar 22, 20221 hr 28 min
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Episode description

Natural language processing expert and PhD student Melanie Subbiah sits down with Jon Krohn to discuss GPT-3, its strengths and weaknesses, and the future of NLP.


In this episode you will learn:

  • What is GPT-3? [6:24]
  • The strengths and weaknesses of GPT-3 [14:38]
  • What is autoregression? [18:03]
  • GPT-3's new fine-tuning abilities [20:02]
  • Bias issues with GPT-3 [22:47]
  • The future of natural language processing models [27:54]
  • How Melanie ended up working at OpenAI [38:13]
  • Melanie’s self-study process [42:19]
  • Melanie's work on OpenAI API [45:45]
  • How to address the climate change and bias issues that cloud discussions of large natural language models [49:40]
  • Why Melanie chose to do a PhD at Columbia University [1:01:17]
  • The machine learning tools Melanie’s most excited about [1:08:09]


Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/559

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