Hot on the heels of our conference call, it's the return of our Short Term Scientific Missions! International travel grants for anyone interested in future language technologies.
Tech folks and humanists all welcome.
Read more and apply! 👇
https://t.co/nIsYqSpvRP
In "AI we could have had" - a six-page spread in tomorrow's FT Weekend - I argue that there used to be another, more humane way to think about intelligence, interactivity, smartness. Sadly, we blew it! An essay inspired by A SENSE OF REBELLION: https://t.co/CKBxKvaSbK
A workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (#LUHME), jointly organized by chairs of #LITHME WGs 1 & 7 will be part of 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence @ecai2024 #ECAI24 on 19-20 Oct 2024. Abstracts: 15 May. More info: https://t.co/y7wH7Y310a
#LITHME Training School kicked off in Hradec Králové, Czechia, with WG1 speaking about advances in generative AI, followed by industry talk from Simax on sign language avatars. It will be an exciting week at @UHK_cz! PS Check out the WG1 chair interview: https://t.co/bz7sJVovc4
Beware "a false narrative that as long as we can get the technology right, if we can "fix" it, using that technology will be alright. This is a misconception: we are not going to undo centuries of structural oppression by tweaking a few datasets." 👇
https://t.co/vOamZlwjPH
Have you applied yet for our #LITHME conference ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era‘?
⏰The abstract submission deadline is approaching: 8 June 2024.
More details👇👇👇
What's better than a super awesome conference about future language tech? That's right, a FULLY FUNDED conference about future language tech @UCLouvain_be! 2-3 Sept 2024
No tech smarts needed, just interest in our themes. Deadline/eligibility etc: https://t.co/2nB1UEihOh. Go go!
Chloe Patman, our STSM grantee, commenting on her experience:
I would recommend STSM 100%. The flexibility in terms of states, institutions and supervisors allows you to pick a place and person with very specific interests and what you want to look at.👇
https://t.co/EY2GaCzA5z
What's better than a super awesome conference about future language tech? That's right, a FULLY FUNDED conference about future language tech @UCLouvain_be! 2-3 Sept 2024
No tech smarts needed, just interest in our themes. Deadline/eligibility etc: https://t.co/2nB1UEihOh. Go go!
Happy International Girls in #ICT Day!💜
Since its launch in 2020, the @GirlsGoCircular initiative has already empowered 40,000 girls with essential digital & entrepreneurial skills to evolve in a circular economy, across +30 🇪🇺 countries.
Discover more https://t.co/Lzu8Rv2DXe
A workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (#LUHME), jointly organized by chairs of #LITHME WGs 1 & 7 will be part of 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence @ecai2024 #ECAI24 on 19-20 Oct 2024. Abstracts: 15 May. More info: https://t.co/y7wH7Y310a
In reality, they are just sophisticated forms of autocomplete, drawing on huge databases to make shrewd (but reliably fallible) guesses about which word comes next:
https://t.co/9IBi1wsrpn
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Our article, Beyond the Front Yard: The Dehumanizing Message of Accent-Altering Technology, has just been published open access in @OxfordJournals' Applied Linguistics!
https://t.co/pVkZsEKEoa
Reminder - the call closes tomorrow at 12 CET: A FULLY FUNDED training school, inc. travel & accommodation! 27-31 May 2024 @UHK_cz. All linguists & lang tech devs welcome, all levels of tech smarts! Deadline Tues 19 Dec 2023, 12:00 CET. https://t.co/HC6XQOZFuS
What's better than a super awesome training school?
A FULLY FUNDED training school, inc. travel & accommodation! 27-31 May 2024 @UHK_cz.
All linguists & lang tech devs welcome, all levels of tech smarts! Deadline Tues 19 Dec 2023, 12:00 CET. https://t.co/rrViywmtoZ. Pls repost!
#LITHME STSM grantee Livio Robaldo from @SwanseaUni’s @LegalLabWales visited @uni_lu to collaborate with Davide Liga, focusing on implementing #LLMs in the legal domain. Read about his experience here: https://t.co/5OgFfYTeMU
What's better than a super awesome training school?
A FULLY FUNDED training school, inc. travel & accommodation! 27-31 May 2024 @UHK_cz.
All linguists & lang tech devs welcome, all levels of tech smarts! Deadline Tues 19 Dec 2023, 12:00 CET. https://t.co/rrViywmtoZ. Pls repost!
Yet another thing we predicted in our 2021 forecast report! People having detailed & involved conversations with machines. Lots of risks as well as benefits.
Read the news before it happens, download our forecast report now! https://t.co/zKJGLkoNb5
https://t.co/2OWdjmxpSg