On this episode, we’re joined by Aidan Gomez), Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere). Cohere develops and releases a range of innovative AI-powered tools and solutions for a variety of NLP use cases.
We discuss:
What “attention” means in the context of ML.
Aidan’s role in the “Attention Is All You Need” paper.
What state-space models (SSMs) are, and how they could be an alternative to transformers.
What it means for an ML architecture to saturate compute.
Details around data constraints for when LLMs scale.
Challenges of measuring LLM performance.
How Cohere is positioned within the LLM development space.
Insights around scaling down an LLM into a more domain-specific one.
Concerns around synthetic content and AI changing public discourse.
The importance of raising money at healthy milestones for AI development.
Aidan Gomez - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidangomez/
Cohere - https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohere-ai/
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