Who Does NLP Work For, Fairness and Access

In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with researcher Dr. Victor Dibia about how he got into machine learning, multimodal agents and the many uses of sequence to sequence models. Stay tuned to the end to help us shoutout our newest Rasa contributors!  Rasa Chats is a biweekly podcast about conversational AI brought to you by the Rasa team. Expect discussions about open source, applied research and how our community of makers is building accessible AI.

Apologies for the audio issues: Rachael's noise cancelling filter was also apparently cancelling parts of her actual speech and it didn't show up in the test recording. In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with researcher Dr. Su Lin Blodgett from Microsoft Research about who NLP technology works for, fairness and access. Stay tuned to the end to help us shoutout our newest Rasa contributors!

In today's episode, Head of Evangelism, Mady Mantha talks with Josh Meyer, Mozilla Fellow and co-founder of Coqui, about how he got into speech technology, the current state of affairs of open source speech tech and evaluating speech systems. They also discuss common challenges and applications for the enterprise.

In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with Rasa superhero Julian Gerhard about contributing to Rasa, building an assistant to run on a Raspberry PI and the challenges of voice-based conversational assistants.  Stay tuned to the end to help us shoutout our newest Rasa contributors!

In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with Rasa developer advocate Vincent D. Warmerdam about how spelling errors, how he got into NLP and a little bit of behind the scenes of developer relations at Rasa.  Stay tuned to the end to help us shoutout our newest Rasa contributors!

Join Mady Mantha as she talks with Adam Thomas, Principal at Approaching One, about how to build lasting technical products. Adam's work can be found here: http://www.theadamthomas.com

Join Rachael as she talks with Dr. Emily Bender from the University of Washington about ethics in NLP, who's responsible for what agents do and say and the limits of large neural language models.

Launching conversational AI in the enterprise depends on many things that are essential for successful adoption and delivering value.  In this episode, join Senior Product Evangelist Mady Mantha, and Developer Marketing Manager, Karen White, talk about why enterprises need conversational AI teams, real user data and insights, and a unique approach to launch assistants that can handle mission-critical tasks. Links you'll want to check out: https://blog.rasa.com/project-management-for-conversational-ai-teams-template/ https://rasa.com/summit/

Join Rachael as she chats with Alise Otilia Ramirez, Senior Analytics Engineer at Netflix as they talk about transitioning into tech with a non-traditional background, analytics vs. modelling in data science, data bias and literacy, the ethical role of data scientists and BlackTIDES, an organization amplifying Black voices in Technology, Informatics, Data Science, Epidemiology, & Social Science.  Follow Alise on twitter: https://twitter.com/import_alise, Follow BlackTIDES: https://twitter.com/BlackTIDES1

Join Rachael as she chats with Xanda Schofield, assistant professor at Harvey Mudd College, about  topic modelling tools for folks outside of machine learning, building conversational AI that works for everyone and preserving privacy in text data. More resources from Dr. Schofield: On LDA tools: our project for figuring out LDA tools is based on a web project called jsLDA (https://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/jsLDA/) started by Prof. David Mimno that gives a simple UI and tutorialization for LDA. The new version is still in the works, but for more on what we're doing, you can check out this video from West Coast NLP 2020: https://youtu.be/wuGcGIKzSoU  On privacy: Dr. Latanya Sweeney has a lot of practical resources available for asking questions and testing out notions of privacy at http://latanyasweeney.org, including a simulator of the "age, gender, zip code" test I described at https://aboutmyinfo.org.