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Sara Hooker: Cohere For AI, the Hardware Lottery, and DL Tradeoffs

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:52:55
Publish Date: 2022-07-14 16:00:40
Description: In episode 34 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Sara Hooker.

Sara (@sarahookr) leads Cohere for AI and is a former Research Scientist at Google. Sara founded a Bay Area non-profit called Delta Analytics, which works with non-profits and communities to build technical capacity. She is also one of the co-founders of the Trustworthy ML Initiative, an active participant of the ML Collective research group, and a host of the underrated ML podcast.

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Sections:

(00:00) Intro

(02:20) Podcasting gripe-fest

(06:00) Sara’s journey: from economics to AI

(09:15) Economics vs. AI research

(12:45) The Hardware Lottery

(19:15) Towards better hardware benchmarks

(26:00) Getting away from the hardware lottery

(32:30) The myth of compact, interpretable, robust, performant DNNs

(35:15) Top-line metrics vs. disaggregated metrics

(39:20) Solving memorization in the data pipeline, noisy examples

(45:35) Cohere For AI

Episode Links:

Cohere for AI

Sara’s Homepage

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