Richard Socher
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 25, 2024 by Richard Socher · across every show →
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
Socher: No one was teaching neural nets for NLP globally in 2014
“No one was teaching neural nets for NLP in the world in 2014 when I graduated, and I thought, man, I'm still not, I can't convince some of these older professors, they're so, like sort of prefer other methods and don't believe in neural nets, so I got to train…”
Oct 25, 2024 bullish
Oct 25, 2024 positive
Socher: Salesforce Research invented prompt engineering in 2018
“On the research side this was in 2018, we finally culminated all my ideas when we invented prompt engineering, and we didn't quite call it prompt engineering, but the basic idea was there, namely that you can prompt a single model with different questions, and…”
Oct 25, 2024 bearish
Oct 25, 2024
Socher: OpenAI cited Socher's 2018 paper, crediting it with influencing early GPTs
“That paper was actually cited by OpenAI, and they're still doing research papers. Like, we were told by some of the folks that worked on the first version of GPTs, like one and two, that that actually had influenced them to work more in NLP.”