Dissecting the Controversy around OpenAI's New Language Model

In the inaugural TWiML Live, Sam Charrington is joined by Amanda Askell (OpenAI), Anima Anandkumar (NVIDIA/CalTech), Miles Bundage (OpenAI), Robert Munro (Lilt), and Stephen Merity to discuss the controversial recent release of the OpenAI GPT-2 Language Model. ** SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE GREAT DISCUSSIONS LIKE THIS ONE ** According to OpenAI, GPT-2 is "a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization — all without task-specific training." GPT-2 is a deep neural network trained on 40GB of internet data (about 8 million web pages) to create a machine learning model with about 1.5 billion parameters, however due to concerns about misuse, only a limited model with 117M parameters was released to the public. Check out the recap to learn: - What is a language model? Where does GPT-2 fit in the broader Natural Language Processing (NLP) landscape? What types of tasks is it good for? Why are language models important? - What's special about the language model OpenAI recently released? - Why did the announcement create such a stir? - Why is it a problem that they didn't release the full model? - What are the true capabilities of this new model? - What should OpenAI have done differently? - How can you quantitatively evaluate the negative impacts that your software might have? - What can the machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) communities do differently? What conversations need to take place and where? - What are best practices in honest reporting of new results? Subscribe! iTunes/Apple Podcasts ➙ http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-machine-learning/id1116303051?mt=2 Google Podcasts ➙ https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL3R3aW1sYWk%3D Spotify ➙ https://open.spotify.com/show/2sp5EL7s7EqxttxwwoJ3i7 R