Program:
Introduction to the seminar series, CuttingEdgeAI - Klas Pettersen, CEO, NORA.ai
ChatGPT and Large Language Models - Lilja Øvrelid, Professor of Language Technology, UiO
The Potential Benefits of Large Language Models - Pierre Lison, Senior Researcher at The Norwegian Computing Center
Interview training of child-welfare and law-enforcement professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars - Michael Riegler, Chief Research Scientist at Simula/Research Professor
The Societal and Ethical Implications of Language Models - Samia Touileb, Researcher, MediaFutures, UiB
When factuality matters. Starting from the opposite point of the LLMs - building computationally efficient AI that gets the facts right - Anita Schjøll Abildgaard, CEO of Iris.ai
Panel discussion: The Ethics of Large Language Models
Moderator: Klas Pettersen, CEO of NORA.ai
Panellists:
- Samia Touileb, Researcher, MediaFutures, UiB
- Anita Schjøll Abildgaard, CEO of Iris.ai
- Eivind Throndsen, Academic Liaison / Product Manager, Schibsted
- Per Erik Solberg, NLP Linguist, Språkbanken v/Nasjonalbiblioteket
- Sten Ludvigsen, Professor in learning and digitalization, UiO
Language Models Demystified - Andrey Kutuzov, Associate Professor, Research Group for Language Technology, UiO
When factuality matters - the technical perspective. How Iris.ai tackles the problems of lack of data for fine-tuning, and injection of knowledge, for applications where adherence to facts matter - Victor Botev, CTO of Iris.ai
Fine-tuning Language Models with Norwegian Open Data - Per Egil Kummervold, Senior Researcher at the National Library of Norway
Presentation | Jupyter Notebook
Training and deploying LLMs reliably - Arjun Chandra, Independent AI researcher, engineer, and founder of brua.io
Presentation | Jupyter Notebook: LLM fine-tunning & LLM hallucinations in action
This event is partly funded by the European Union's DIGITAL EUROPE Programme, under Grant Agreement No. 101083966, and the Norwegian AI Cloud project, funded by Forskningsrådet with Grant Agreement No. 322336.
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