natural language processing

also referred to as: nlp

13 statements across 11 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 16, 2014 by Itai Gurari · across every show →

Everything said about natural language processing, oldest first

Jan 16, 2014 negative
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NLP is not yet advanced enough to fully automate legal research
“The NLP isn't quite there. It may never get there.”
Itai Gurari Jan 16, 2014 ▶ 10:16 Itai Gurari, Judicata // Data Driven NYC 21 // Dec 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 18, 2014 bullish
Prediction Held up
LeCun predicted in 2014 deep learning would conquer natural language processing
“There's a kind of a sense that in the community that the next set of techniques to kind of fall to deep learning, if you want, will be natural language processing.”
Yann LeCun Dec 18, 2014 ▶ 26:15 Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Sep 14, 2015 positive
Disclosure
Qlik plans to integrate natural language processing without building underlying models
“So, natural language processing the simplest answer is yes. The longer answer is processing the language isn't the hard, I mean, that's the hard part. It's not one we're gonna do. Dealing with the language once you have it is something we're obviously very int…”
Anthony Deighton Sep 14, 2015 ▶ 21:55 Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Oct 21, 2015 positive
Disclosure
MetaMind developed a single deep learning model for multiple NLP tasks
“The really amazing thing and the reason why I'm saying there's a bit of a new breakthrough coming up now is that we can actually solve a lot of different NLP problems now with the same kind of deep learning model, and this is one that we've just developed A co…”
Richard Socher Oct 21, 2015 ▶ 9:47 Richard Socher, MetaMind // Deep Learning for Enterprise (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 19, 2017
Insight
Davis: NLP tasks hard for humans remain hard for AI
“Basically anything that is really hard for you to do as a human is still gonna be pretty hard for us.”
George Davis Dec 19, 2017 ▶ 18:39 Superpowered Conversations // George Davis, Frame.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Dec 19, 2017 negative
Opinion
Thakur avoids buzzwords like NLP and machine learning in system design
“Notice I did not quite use buzzwords like NLP, or deep learning, or data science, or machine learning, which I could very well have used, but I don't think it's that useful.”
Mayur Thakur Dec 19, 2017 ▶ 14:43 Surveillance Platform for Banks // Mayur Thakur, Goldman Sachs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Jan 22, 2020 bullish
Opinion
Delangue: NLP is the most important field of machine learning
“I believe that NLP today is the most important field of machine learning.”
Clement Delangue Jan 22, 2020 ▶ 2:33 NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 22, 2020 positive
Insight
Delangue: AI is ending human exclusivity over natural language processing
“We're really moving from a world where only humans could do natural language, which is why you have search large customer support, sales, community, communication departments in companies.”
Clement Delangue Jan 22, 2020 ▶ 9:14 NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 22, 2020 bullish
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Delangue: Every company will use NLP within three years or face disadvantage
“I believe that in in three years, every single company in the world will use NLP. And even more than that, I believe that in three years, a company that is not using NLP will be in a systematic disadvantage compared to a company that is using NLP, because it m…”
Clement Delangue Jan 22, 2020 ▶ 17:07 NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Sep 6, 2023 positive
Opinion
The only meaningful way to adopt NLP and LLMs is cloud-based
“The only meaningful way to adopt to adopt NLP and LLMs is in the cloud”
Milos Rusic Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 7:46 From NLP Start-Up to Generative-AI Platform: Milos Rusic (deepset) Unpacks Product-Market Fit
Dec 13, 2023 neutral
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Sapoznik: OpenAI is aggressively commoditizing NLP and machine learning capabilities
“Where we see this going is what open AI and all that we're doing is really a really fantastic and spectacularly aggressive commoditization of NLP and some other machine learning capabilities.”
Gustavo Sapoznik Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 16:38 AI vs. Call Centers: ASAPP CEO Gustavo Sapoznik on the Future of Customer Service
Oct 17, 2024 bullish
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Delangue: Non-text AI modalities will transform technology like NLP did
“It's gonna be audio, it's gonna be video, it's gonna be biology, chemistry, AI. These are, in my opinion the domains that in the next few years are going to change the world the same way NLP has in the past.”
Clement Delangue Oct 17, 2024 ▶ 44:56 The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
Sep 10, 2026 neutral
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Socher: Majority of his early 2010 neural network NLP papers were rejected
“The way careers work is you want to be kind of novel, but if you're too novel, if you're too far out there, then your papers will get rejected, and that certainly happened to me a lot in the early days, like, 2010 of neural networks for natural language proces…”
Richard Socher Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 4:10 When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
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