NLP Seminar

Speaker: Jonas Andrulis (Aleph Alpha): Human world models across languages and modalities. The role of language and the alignment of stochastic parrots

Abstract: With MAGMA we have recently shown how to use pre-trained image encoders and language models to achieve powerful multimodal world models with very limited training resources. These models retain many of the features of their components (like zero-shot capabilities or OCR) and bring them into a multimodal space. In this presentation we will be looking at technical model capabilities and discuss pressing questions like alignment and fairness, and how to understand and use these models towards a new way for humans and machines to interact.

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By practitioners, for practitioners

Each seminar features an initial 45-minute presentation by practitioners or researchers followed by discussion. The NLP Seminar Series is organized by AI Sweden and RISE NLP Group, and moderated by Magnus Sahlgren, Head of Research, Natural Language Understanding at AI Sweden and Joakim Nivre, Head of Natural Language Processing at RISE.

Proposals for presentations can be sent to magnus.sahlgren@ai.se and francisca.hoyer@ai.se