My name is Jodie Burchell and I'm a data scientist living in the beautiful city of Berlin, Germany. This blog is a collection of my projects and things I've learned about data science, machine learning and natural language processing. The opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect on my employer.
Convolutional neural networks, CNNs, convnets, call them what you like - these powerful neural nets remain one of the most popular type of models for classifying images. But have you ever wondered how they work? In this blog post, we’ll go through this step-by-step, with lots of diagrams and code …
The claims of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, have been some of the hottest and most emotionally charged discussions about LLMs. In addition, these claims probably have the most intellectual weight behind them of all of the claims about LLM abilities. For example, in March 2023, Microsoft research released a …
In June 2022, a story hit international news that a Google engineer believed that one of their LLMs had achieved sentience.
Blake Lemoine was testing Google’s conversational LLM LaMDA (the model that went on to power the original Bard) through a series of chats. Over time, as Lemoine completed …
Over the past two years, since the initial release of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve been in a hype cycle around large language models, or LLMs. Due to the very human “feeling” of LLM outputs, a lot of people have been convinced that these models are showing human-level abilities …
I’ve been hearing positive things about NDC Oslo for quite some time. I enviously listened to my developer friends’ stories about the incredible talks, parties, swag, and of course, the endless food. So, you can imagine how happy I was to have a talk accepted this year and finally …