Podcast S3/E7 – María Grandury – AI that speaks Spanish
María Grandury introduces us to natural language processing in Spanish and the community she created to support it.
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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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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 – About the NLP Models and the Community of María «NLP in Spanish»
19:35 – What were your expectations of AI and NLP 5 years ago?
22:20 – What will it be possible to do in 10 years?
25:07 – About the NLP Regulation of Data Protection in Europe. To what extent can you help?
31:36 – Challenges in NLP and ML
34:35 – Recommendations and the Influence of Science Fiction on the perception of AI
37:18 - Should we learn Machine Learning today?
39:23 – Recommendations to listeners
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A history of the Saturdays.AI community. Originally published on Jan 27, 2022.
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