HTC Seminar Series #3: Recent Advancements in AI algorithms and systems

This weeks HTC Seminar Series presets a talk by Gil Arditi, Head of Product for Machine Learning at Lyft.  The talk focuses on recent advancements in AI algorithms and systems. 

The link to the video is here.

One topic to pay particular attention to is the discussion on the OpenAI GPT-2 large transformer-based language model. In a later post we will dive into a more detailed look at what GPT-2 is doing, and how it was constructed.  And how it might be used in new applications other than just text generation.

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