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Adam Coates is the Director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab - https://twitter.com/adampaulcoates http://research.baidu.com Read the transcript: http://blog.ycombinator.com/ YC's podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - http://twitter.com/craigcannon
Adam Coats explains his role and the purpose of BYU's AI Lab.
"today we have Adam coats here for an interview um Adam uh you run the AI Lab at Buu in Silicon Valley um could you just give us a quick intro and explain what Buu is for people who don't know yeah um ..."
This segment explores the AI lab's focus on creating impactful technologies that reach over 100 million people.
"ourselves every day is that we're Mission oriented um so the the mission of the AI lab is is precisely to uh create AI technologies that can have a significant impact on at least 100 million people uh..."
This segment explores the journey of developing a superhuman speech recognition engine and the future of language processing technology.
"speech engine actually started out as a basic research project uh we looked at this problem we said gosh what would happen if speech recognition were human level for every product you ever used um so ..."
This segment explores the process of creating a speech recognition system from audio clip collection to deep learning techniques.
"actually because I'm super interested all right so spe start with uh yeah let's start with speech recognition before we go and train a speech system um what we have to do is collect a whole bunch of a..."
This segment discusses the transformation of speech recognition technology through deep learning, highlighting innovative products and user feedback.
"hand engineered combinations of many different modules and each module would have its own set of machine learning algorithms with its own little tricks um and so one of the things that our team did re..."
Exploring advancements and expectations in AI-driven speech and text-to-speech technologies.
"for different accents because it's all data driven we don't have to think about how we're going to serve all these different users if they're represented in the data sets and we get some transcription..."
This segment explores how speech recognition technology is evolving to better understand and respond to human communication in real-time.
"anything we can do to bring that down uh actually affects user experience quite a bit um we actually did a combination of research uh production hacking working with product teams thinking through how..."
This segment explores the societal implications of AI, emphasizing the need for critical thinking and adaptation amidst emerging technologies.
"structure to them like a lecture um where over the course of the lecture I might realize I misunderstood something uh or some piece of jargon gets spelled out for me and now I need to go and and trans..."
This segment explores the need for adaptable and self-directed individuals in AI development, emphasizing the blend of skills required to bridge research, hardware, and user experience.
"moving so quickly uh we also need a different kind of person now we we also need people who are sort of chameleons who are these highly flexible types that can understand and even contribute to a rese..."