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Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition

By : Denis Rothman
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Book Image

Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition

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By: Denis Rothman

Overview of this book

Transformers are...well...transforming the world of AI. There are many platforms and models out there, but which ones best suit your needs? Transformers for Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition, guides you through the world of transformers, highlighting the strengths of different models and platforms, while teaching you the problem-solving skills you need to tackle model weaknesses. You'll use Hugging Face to pretrain a RoBERTa model from scratch, from building the dataset to defining the data collator to training the model. If you're looking to fine-tune a pretrained model, including GPT-3, then Transformers for Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition, shows you how with step-by-step guides. The book investigates machine translations, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, question-answering, and many more NLP tasks. It provides techniques to solve hard language problems and may even help with fake news anxiety (read chapter 13 for more details). You'll see how cutting-edge platforms, such as OpenAI, have taken transformers beyond language into computer vision tasks and code creation using DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. By the end of this book, you'll know how transformers work and how to implement them and resolve issues like an AI detective.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Index
Appendix I — Terminology of Transformer Models

Summary

Fake news begins deep inside our emotional history as humans. When an event occurs, emotions take over to help us react quickly to a situation. We are hardwired to react strongly when we are threatened.

Fake news spurs strong reactions. We fear that this news could temporarily or permanently damage our lives. Many of us believe climate change could eradicate human life from Earth. Others believe that if we react too strongly to climate change, we might destroy our economies and break society down. Some of us believe that guns are dangerous. Others remind us that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution gives us the right to possess a gun in the US.

We went through other raging conflicts over COVID-19, former President Trump, and climate change. In each case, we saw that emotional reactions are the fastest ones to build up into conflicts.

We then designed a roadmap to take the emotional perception of fake news to a rational level. We used some transformer...