Cohere For AI Presents: Colin Raffel

Colin Raffel (UNC Chapel Hill, Hugging Face) joins Ellie Evans (Cohere) for a fireside chat about his path to ML research. From DIY electronic kits and guitar pedals to academia, hear all about Colin Raffel's research journey. 00:00 Introducing C4AI 01:21 Introducing Colin 02:53 Why do you do ML research? 08:10 Decisions made and lessons learned from a research journey 11:44 Why the transition from industry to Academia? 17:20 Academic ML research in the era of scale and giant models 22:27 How do you decide on what topics to research? 26:12 How do you drive the momentum of a research group? 28:58 Building ML models like we build open-source software 32:58 Advice to students who are just starting their research journey 35:54 Music Machine Learning Research 40:13 What makes PhD applicants stand out 43:17 Advice to early-stage researchers 45:13 What is stopping collaborative models? Research or engineering? 47:28 Favorite and least favorite things about working in academia