O'reilly Bots Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Making neural networks more accessible.In this episode of the O’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I talk with Richard Socher, chief scientist at Salesforce.  He was previously the founder and CEO of MetaMind, a deep learning startup that Salesforce acquired in 2016.  Socher also teaches the “Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing” course at Stanford University. Our conversation focuses on where deep learning and NLP are headed, and interesting current and near-future applications.Discussion points: Accessibility, in a couple of senses: making deep learning easier for computer scientists to implement, and making the power of deep learning available through intuitive applications AI-enabled question answering systems and dynamic co-attention networks The issue of interpretability, and progress in creating more interpretable models Why Socher believes that human-in-the-loop is the best solution for the current “fake n