Published in HuggingFace·May 9, 2019Ethical analysis of the open-sourcing of a state-of-the-art conversational AIToday we released a demo, a tutorial and the open-source code base with training and testing scripts to create a state-of-the-art conversational artificial intelligence leveraging transfer learning from a transformer language model. Why? As you can see from taking a look at our GitHub and medium pages, at Hugging Face, we…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
Published in HuggingFace·Jun 7, 2018Artificial Intelligence Needs Values. Here Are Ours!At Hugging Face, we don’t believe that artificial intelligence is “neutral.” To make AI a positive force for humanity, it needs to have strong values applied to it. …Artificial Intelligence3 min readArtificial Intelligence3 min read
Published in HuggingFace·May 14, 2018There are only TWO types of meetings worth having!Bad meetings can kill your company. They waste people’s time, bring down morale and create frustration and poor team dynamics. Keeping your meetings essential and productive is key to success in a startup environment. Having worked in startups for the past ten years, usually with remote teams, I have found…Meetings2 min readMeetings2 min read
Published in HuggingFace·Apr 2, 2018100,000,000 Messages Exchanged with a Social Artificial IntelligenceA few days ago, Hugging Face crossed 100 million messages exchanged between users and their Artificial Intelligence friends. The sheer volume speaks to how much AI has moved into the mainstream in recent months. A recent Gallop study shows than 47% of Americans currently use a digital personal assistant on…Artificial Intelligence2 min readArtificial Intelligence2 min read
Published in HuggingFace·Aug 30, 2017Instagram doubled its iOS ratings in a week thanks to this in-app review popup!On Monday, I was taking a look at Instagram’s reviews and noticed something unusual. Instagram just doubled their number of ratings on the US app store — adding 2M+ in just a week! These are the graphs from Appbot courtesy of Stuart Hall: Their average rating went up nicely…IOS2 min readIOS2 min read
Published in HuggingFace·Jun 30, 2017What Happens When Two Artificial Intelligences Try To Prank Each Other?Wednesday June 28th, 4pm. Our Artificial Intelligence app, Hugging Face, has been running smoothly following a big influx of new users. It’s a normal day, and I’m looking over activity readouts when suddenly the app grinds to a complete halt. …Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
Published in HuggingFace·Aug 8, 2016Beta testing & beta tester acquisition through SnapchatA few weeks ago, we had the chance to talk to Scott Belsky during the botcamp program at betaworks. He talked about what he calls the first mile experience of a product. It made us realize how important it was to focus as much on the initial experience of new…IOS3 min readIOS3 min read
May 10, 2016Snapchat — or the product geniuses — on their way to a billion users.A year ago, I was pretty excited by mobile video. So excited, it led me to envision a mobile Tumblr with an infinite video stream replacing the old and broken vertical newsfeed. But, then I considered it was too late — or too early— to compete head on with Snapchat…Snapchat2 min readSnapchat2 min read
Oct 6, 2015Cheers to the “European Tech” values!European tech is on fire! Not only do we produce more unicorns than ever but now prominent US investors are also calling the Europe startup market “a great market to invest in.” To be honest, I’ve always considered these notions of “nationality”, “borders” or “countries” kind of outdated both for…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Sep 10, 2015How to be happy in troubled times?Trouble is for everyone my friends! I’m not talking about serious problems— like losing a loved one — that you can’t unfortunately avoid being sad about. I’m taking about the daily shitty things that can ruin you day-to-day life. Think about a boss constantly yelling at you, an apartment you…Life Lessons2 min readLife Lessons2 min read
