NLP Pioneer Talks Replacing Himself with AI | Sasha Rush, Cornell Tech
AI, the West Side, and... Puppies? In this episode of The Big Red Show, we sit down with Sasha Rush, a leading expert in machine learning and AI, to talk about everything from LLM hot takes to his teaching position at Cornell Tech in New York City — and why puppies are at the core of his teaching style.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Why Cornell Tech? You have a time machine?
02:50 Hugging Face Early Days
03:53 How does my Mom build an LLM?
05:27 ML Hot Takes
06:50 Concerns about training on LLM data
8:18 Do you feel the AGI?
9:27 Is ChatGPT getting dumber?
10:24 Replacing myself with a LLM
10:50 Sasha’s favorite prompt
11:13 MLE Course Design & Learnings from Teaching
12:31 Why are puppies core to your teaching?
Whether you're deep into machine learning or just curious about the future of AI, this interview has something for everyone.
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