Katherine Munro

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No Baseline? No Benchmarks? No Biggie! An Experimental Approach to Agile Chatbot Development

Lessons learned bringing LLM-based products to production Katherine Munro · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 6 hours ago — Today’s post recaps my recent talk on lessons learned trying to bring LLM-based products to production. You can check out the video here. What happens when you take a working chatbot that’s already serving thousands of customers a day in four different languages, and try to deliver an even better

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Do you suffer from being an artist? You may be entitled to compensation

A deep dive into contemporary issues around AI, copyright, and the true meaning of “fair use.” Katherine Munro · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 13 hours ago — That’s right you heard us, Open AI. Source: Patrick Perkins on Unsplash If you’re reading this, you’re part of the content creator ecosystem: either as a fellow writer, casual consumer or a Medium subscriber. You help keep the system running, which

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Yes, you still need old-school NLP skills in “the age of ChatGPT”

Large Language Models have their strengths, but for many production problems, simpler NLP techniques are faster, cheaper, and just as effective. Katherine Munro · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · Feb 12, 2024 — Large Language Models require new skills, but it’s important not to forget the old ones too, like how to prepare the text data the LLM should use. Source: Markus Winkler on Unsplash. Back when I started

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