91: Pushing the Boundaries of Machine Translation - Spence Green, CEO of Lilt A.I.

Spence Green is the co-founder and CEO at Lilt, a San Francisco-based startup that builds intelligent software to automate translation for businesses. Spence and his partner, John DeNero, started Lilt because they believed that a person’s native language shouldn’t limit their ability to learn, grow, and support themselves. Social problems such as social inequity - resources in a given society are distributed unevenly - rarely have satisfactory technical solutions.

Steady advances in computational linguistics have brought us to a time at which universal information access is not just a dream.

Insights

Why an automated translator is important for the corporate world?

A CEO’s job and how he influences the organizational culture.

Bringing people from stabilized occupations to take the risk to join a start-up.

How automated translators are going to increase the efficiency of multilingual content publishing and marketing.

Books

The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060833459/?tag=devonfir-20)

Managing Oneself: The Key to Success - Peter Drucker (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Managing-Oneself-Peter-F-Drucker/dp/163369304X/ref=sr_1_4?crid=106CDRCKL3IAY&keywords=peter+drucker&qid=1581614768&sprefix=peter+dru%2Caps%2C404&sr=8-4)

Introduction to Deep Learning (The MIT Press) (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Deep-Learning-MIT-Press/dp/0262039516/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=charniak&qid=1581614712&s=books&sr=8-1)

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