Where do you come from, ChatGPT?On the emergence and future of large language models

17 September 2024, by Chris Biemann

Photo: Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg

Public evening lecture by Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann (University of Hamburg)

So-called “large language models” such as those in ChatGPT have now become part of our everyday lives. Not only can they understand human language, they can also generate it and have seemingly limitless knowledge at their disposal. But how did the development from simple statistics to (artificially) intelligent systems proceed? What mechanisms, what technical requirements and what human input are needed to reach this level? What are these models still doing wrong and what are the foreseeable developments in the coming years? And what does this mean for the development, exploration and preservation of cultural heritage?
Chris Biemann's presentation at the themed conference “AI methods in the academy program: potentials and application scenarios” is dedicated to answering these and other questions, also from the plenum.

Chris Biemann has been Professor of Language Technology in the Department of Computer Science since 2016 and Director of the Hub of Computing and Data Science, both at Universität Hamburg, since 2021. In this role, he shapes and supports the digital transformation in research for all natural sciences and humanities disciplines through methodological services and by promoting interdisciplinary projects between digital-methodological subjects and their application disciplines.
Chris Biemann is the author of well over 300 publications in the field of computational linguistics/natural language processing. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Leipzig in 2007, was part of the San Francisco-based startup Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, where he worked for two more years, and was a junior professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests span a wide range of natural language processing tasks, with a focus on semantic processing, low-resource languages, dataset creation, open-source demonstrators, and their use in research in hermeneutic disciplines.

Greeting from:
Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, President of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg

Lecture by:
Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann (University of Hamburg)

Monday, September 23, 2024, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
University of Hamburg, East Wing, Lecture Hall 221,
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg

Admission to the event is free.  Registration is required for participation at veranstaltungen(at)awhamburg.de.(veranstaltungen"AT"awhamburg.de)  You will receive a confirmation from us.