CS224U

Rishi Bommasani on Foundation Models

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:15:00 -0700

Deriving static representations from contextual ones, interdisciplinary research, training large models, the Foundation Models paper and CRFM, being an academic on Twitter, and progress in NLP.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/bommasani/

Douwe Kiela on research at Hugging Face

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:15:00 -0700

Hugging Face, multimodality, data and model auditing, ethics review, adversarial testing, attention as more and less than you ever needed, neural information retrieval, philosophy of mind and consciousness, augmenting human creativity, openness in science, and a defininitive guide to pronouncing Douwe.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/kiela/

Omar Khattab on neural information retrieval

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:15:00 -0700

Pronouncing "ColBERT", the origins of ColBERT, doing NLP from an IR perspective, how getting "scooped" can be productive, OpenQA and related tasks, PhD journeys, why even retrieval plus attention is not all you need, multilingual knowledge-intensive NLP, and aiming high in research projects.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/khattab/

Richard Socher on conviction in research

Mon, 02 May 2022 15:15:00 -0700

The early days of the rise of deep learning in NLP, conviction, the importance of applied work in the current moment, start-up risks, the state of Web search, paramotoring, and over-looked gems in the U.S. National Park system.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/socher/

Ellie Pavlick on true language understanding

Mon, 09 May 2022 15:15:00 -0700

Grounding through pure language modeling objectives, the origins or probing, the nature of understanding, the future of system assessment, signs of meaningful progress in the field, and having faith in yourself.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/pavlick/

Yulia Tsvetkov on ethical NLP

Mon, 16 May 2022 15:15:00 -0700

Coast-to-coast professional journeys, multilingual NLP, teaching in a fast-changing field, the history of hate speech detection in NLP, ethics review of NLP research, research on sensitive topics, mentoring researchers, and optimizing for your own passions.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/tsvetkov/

Kalika Bali on language technologies for a multilingual world

Mon, 23 May 2022 20:00:00 -0700

Giving a TED talk, linguistic diversity, code switching and large language models, the Indian NLP scene, empowering women with language consultation work, Wordle, and "once a linguist, always a linguist".

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/bali/

Roger Levy on computational psycholinguistics in the deep learning era

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:00:00 -0700

From genes to memes, evidence in linguistics, central questions of computational psycholinguistics, academic publishing woes, and the benefits of urban density.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/levy/

Percy Liang on the Center for Research on Foundation Models

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:00:00 -0700

Realizing that Foundation Models are a big deal, scaling, why Percy founded CRFM, Stanford's position in the field, benchmarking, privacy, and CRFM's first and next 30 years.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/liang/

Maria Antoniak on cultural analytics

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:07:00 -0700

Birth narratives, stable static representations, NLP for everyone, AI2 and Semantic Scholar, the mission of Ukrainian Catholic University, and books books books.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/antoniak/

Adina Williams on deep linguistic analysis in NLP

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:15:00 -0700

Neuroscience and neural networks, being a linguist in the world of NLP, evaluation methods, fine-grained NLI questions, the pace of research, and the vexing fact that, on the internet, people = men.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/williams/

Diyi Yang on socially aware language technologies

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:00:00 -0700

Moving to Stanford, linguistic and social variation, interventional studies, and shared stories and lessons learned from an ACL Young Rising Star.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/yang/

Sasha Rush on NLP research, engineering, and education

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:00:00 -0700

Coding puzzles, practices, and education, structured prediction, the culture of Hugging Face, large models, and the energy of New York.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/rush/

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe on understanding your data

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:07:00 -0800

Leaving Ohio, being back in Belgium, organizing NAACL 2022, reviewing at NLP-scale, universal dependencies, and doing NLU before it was cool.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/demarneffe/

Amir Goldberg on the impact of AI

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:30:00 -0800

AI and social science, the causal revolution in economics, predictions about the impact of AI, teaching MBAs, productizing AI, and a journey from Tel Aviv to Princeton to Stanford.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/goldberg/

Sam Bowman on benchmarking and AI alignment

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:00:00 -0800

Lessons learned about benchmarking, adversarial testing, the dangers of over- and under-claiming, and AI alignment.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/bowman/