colab.research.google.com
AI
language model fine-tuning
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4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Idea: 2 for, 4 against
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What people liked
Fun demo and workshop material
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing MasterScrat! This looks fun!
heybrandons on HNThat sounds great! This and the main workshop site have many subjects I'm really interested to check out. Thank you!
raidicy on HN
Objections
Title suggests speech, but it only generates text
From 3 comments
I got a bit tricked by the title here on HN. Maybe we can replace `talk` with `write`? Thought this was something that could learn how I speak and could generate sound from that,…
capableweb on HNI'm disappointed that this is about typed text rather than actual talking - I had hoped that training something that talked like me might assist technology vendors in actually…
arethuza on HNYeah, Microsoft has had NN-based speech generators that can mimick your own voice for about a year now. Thought this was going to be a competing service.
moron4hire on HN
Privacy concern about uploading chat logs to Google Colab
From 2 comments
I’ve never used PyTorch before... is this running within my local machine, or is there some API in here that’s also sending data to Google to also train their models? Asking a…
thisisastopsign on HNThe python notebook is hosted on google colab which will execute on free (for you) google servers. If you’re concerned about privacy probably do not upload your personal chat…
heybrandons on HN
Requests
Share implementation details and notebooks
From 2 comments
I would be very curious to see your notebook - while this simple approach works well with GPT, we are not getting the results we'd want with a more complex question/answer model…
MasterScrat on HNWe don't have any plan to record it currently. But we will release the two other notebooks used during the workshop, and plan to write a blog post detailing the full content.
MasterScrat on HN
Add voice generation
From 1 comment
How about this combined with recent advances in text-to-speech like Deep Voice that can sound like you? (Edit: punctuation)
thedirt0115 on HN
Questions
Python 2 or 3 and whether it runs in local Jupyter
From 1 comment
I definitely need to give this a whirl. Does it use Python 2 or 3, and is it as simple as importing its ipynb to run it in a local Jupyter notebook?
prophesi on HN
Whether it works with small Q&A/FAQ corpora
From 1 comment
Could you train this on a Q&A/FAQ corpus and get somewhat relevant results? (And is there any better tool for doing this?)
fudged71 on HN
Alternatives named
Lyrebird / Microsoft voice cloning
From 2 comments
I totally missed that Lyrebird was acquired : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006405
the-dude on HNYeah, Microsoft has had NN-based speech generators that can mimick your own voice for about a year now. Thought this was going to be a competing service.
moron4hire on HN
PPLM plug-and-play language model
From 1 comment
This is cool - might be worth training a simple discriminator model to identify your utterances, and then you can use the plug-and-play language model (PPLM -…
perturbation on HN