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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