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b"In this extra special episode of the TWIML AI Podcast, a friend of the show John Bohannon leads a jam-packed conversation with Hugging Face\\u2019s recently appointed head of research Douwe Kiela. In our conversation with Douwe, we explore his role at the company, how his perception of Hugging Face has changed since joining, and what research entails at the company. We discuss the emergence of the transformer model and the emergence of BERT-ology, the recent shift to solving more multimodal problems, the importance of this subfield as one of the \\u201cGrand Directions'' of Hugging Face\\u2019s research agenda, and the importance of BLOOM, the open-access Multilingual Language Model that was the output of the BigScience project. Finally, we get into how Douwe\\u2019s background in philosophy shapes his view of current projects, as well as his projections for the future of NLP and multimodal ML.\\nThe complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/589"