Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, on the power of the open source community

Clem explains the virtuous cycles behind the creation and success of Hugging Face, and shares his thoughts on where NLP is heading. --- Clément Delangue is co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the AI community building the future. Hugging Face started as an open source NLP library and has quickly grown into a commercial product used by over 5,000 companies. Connect with Clem: Twitter: LinkedIn: --- Topics Discussed: 0:00 Sneak peek and intro 0:56 What is Hugging Face? 4:15 The success of Hugging Face Transformers 7:53 Open source and virtuous cycles 10:37 Working with both TensorFlow and PyTorch 13:20 The “Write With Transformer“ project 14:36 Transfer learning in NLP 16:43 BERT and DistilBERT 22:33 GPT 26:32 The power of the open source community 29:40 Current applications of NLP 35:15 The Turing Test and conversational AI 41:19 Why speech is an upcoming field within NLP 43:44 The human challenges of machine learning Trans