Roy-Chowdhury: Grammarly open-sourced sensitive text classifier project Seismograph
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury · Grammarly CEO: Steering a $13 billion company through AI disruption | Masters of Scale · Jun 27, 2024 · at 32:29
Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury describes how Grammarly shares technical safety tools with the broader AI community.
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“We have built, for example, a sensitive text classifier. It's a project that we call Seismograph and we've open sourced it.”
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