Podcast S3/E07: María Grandury — AI that speaks Spanish

María Grandury introduces us to natural language processing in Spanish and the community she created to support it. We discuss her work as a machine learning engineer, her collaborations with BigScience and Hugging Face, and the challenges of training language models. We also explore regulation, the influence of science fiction and where to start learning. This is a conversation about opening up a technology that should speak our language too.

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• About María

Contents

0:00 – Introduction

00:40 – Meet María

03:20 – What was María like at 12?

06:03 – About "Big Science" and "Hugging Face"

11:30 – The computing demands of training models

12:49 – NLP models and María’s community, NLP en español

19:35 – What did you expect from AI and natural language processing five years ago?

22:20 – What will it be possible to do in 10 years?

25:07 – NLP regulation and data protection in Europe: how can they help?

31:36 – Challenges in NLP and ML

34:35 – Recommendations and how science fiction shapes our view of AI

37:18 - Should we learn Machine Learning today?

39:23 – Advice for listeners

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