Moving sideways instead of upwards — When we talk about career growth, the first thing that comes to mind is usually promotion. But, sometimes, a lateral move into another job role makes just as much sense for your career as an upwards one. Perhaps you are a Data Engineer looking to become a Data Scientist? Or…

What roles are needed in an organisation building an ML product? — It takes a multi-disciplinary team to build an ML product. Yet, as the entire AI field is very new and vast, job roles & titles aren’t well standardised between companies. Job titles and responsibilities can vary from place to place, with overlap and nuance which easily gets lost in translation…

How did we get to today? — Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making headlines. We’ve seen the announcement of AI systems across a range of industries tackling a range of different tasks. Among other things, these systems have been able to successfully diagnose illness, drive cars, hold conversations, translate text, and create new images. …

A look at LLMs and their popularity — Advances in natural language processing (NLP) have been in the news lately, with special attention paid to large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-3. There have been some bold claims in the media — could models like this soon replace search engines or even master language? But what exactly are…

Build a news headline classifier on the command line — From intent classification in virtual assistants like Alexa & Google Home, through to sentiment analysis and topic identification — text classification can power many different applications. Text classification is the job of predicting which category a piece of text belongs to. If for example the categories are intents for and…

Sharing status at work — Imagine your friend is renovating their house and you ask how it’s going. “It’s all great!” they say. “We’ve stripped 3 rooms, put 7 tins worth of emulsion on the walls, sanded 9 sq m of floorboards and assembled 2 of the bookcases plus a desk. …

Talking to machines through the years — Conversation comes naturally to us. It’s remarkable just how fluently we can converse on any number of topics, and adapt our style with ease to speak with any number of people. In contrast, our conversations with machines can be clumsy and stilted. Conversational AI has been a long-standing research topic…

The multifaceted job of managing Machine Learning experts — If you’re building an ML product and hire more than a couple of scientists, you’ll quickly reach a point where they need a dedicated manager. Yet, experienced ML managers may be even harder to hire than ML scientists! …

Who is building automated transcription services? — Speech-to-text (STT) — also called Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — is a fast growing technology, which fuels applications like virtual assistants, automated captioning, note taking & more. But what are the options for companies who want to build their own products making use of the latest speech-to-text technology? There are…