Tag: NLP
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GPT3 vs Humans
I just wrote my first Medium post! TL:DR Don’t get overexcited over GPT3 and such LMs; they may have impressive (creative, beautiful, funny, even scary) generative power, but next to no explanatory power. That is, despite the name, current large Language Models only represent a tiny fraction of what human language use is about and…
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Explainable VUI Design
I was recently invited by FORD‘s Shyamala Prayaga to talk about “Explainable VUI Design” on her Digital Assistant Academy podcast “The Future is Spoken” and I was of course delighted to oblige! You can find our (audio and video) conversation on YouTube, Google podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, as well as on the…
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Neuro-Symbolic AI – combining Deep Learning with Symbolic Logic for common-sense understanding
I recently read an article in MIT Technology Review entitled “A hybrid AI model lets it reason about the world’s physics like a child“. In it, a so-called “Neuro-Symbolic model” is presented, a new AI approach that combines both Deep Learning and Symbolic Logic. “it uses a neural network to recognize the colors, shapes, and…
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AI Thought Leaders choose books that have impacted them
A few days ago Richard Foster-Fletcher 🌎 asked 15 AI leaders and influencers to choose a recent book that has impacted them the most. The answers ranged from books on Machine Learning coding, to AI Ethics and the future of AI, and even some visionary fiction. Here is my own choice: Max Tegmark‘s Life 3.0…
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How to Design & Optimise Conversational AI Dialogue Systems
The latest episode of Data Futurology features myself talk with Felipe Flores about how I got into AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning (“When I discovered Artificial Neural Networks back in 1993, I thought I had discovered God!”) and later Data Science and Big Data Speech Analytics for Voice User Interface (VUI) and Voice First…
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The immortality of Data
The latest Boundless Podcast Episode is out! It features myself in a deep conversation with Richard Foster-Fletcher about Big Data and Speech Analytics for Voice First & Voice Assistants (but not only), BigTech, AI Ethics and the need for a new legal framework for Responsible AI and Explainable Machine Learning. Below is a snippet of…
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‘statistics ≠ understanding’
Almost 30 years ago, when I was doing my PhD at the University of Manchester, I, too, realised that the only promising way to capture this fuzziness, ambiguity and complexity of language and meaning is through a hybrid approach, combining hand-crafted “rules” (human annotations, i.e. symbolic processing) with the automatic weight distribution and semi-supervised learning…
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My baby, DialogCONNECTION, is 11!
This week, my company, DialogCONNECTION Limited, turned 11 years old! 🎉 🥂 😁 It feels like yesterday, when in December 2008 I registered it with Companies House and became Company Director (with multiple hats). My very first client project was for the NHS Business Authority on their EHIC Helpline (which hopefully will survive the Brexit…
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Towards EU collaboration on Conversational AI, Data & Robotics
I was really interested to read the BDVA – Big Data Value Association‘s and euRobotics‘ recent report on “Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda for an AI PPP: A focal point for collaboration on Artificial Intelligence, Data and Robotics“, which you can find here. Of particular relevance to me was the Section on Physical and…
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UBIQUITOUS VOICE: Essays from the Field now on Kindle!
“Ubiquitous Voice: Essays from the Field”: Thoughts, insights and anecdotes on Speech Recognition, Voice User Interfaces, Voice Assistants, Conversational Intelligence, VUI Design, Voice UX issues, solutions, Best practices and visions from the veterans!