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Dear colleague,
We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology
webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for
Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). This will be the final webinar of
this academic year. You can check the videos of previous webinars and
the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars
Next webinar:
* *Speaker*: Pascale Fung (The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology)
* *Title*: Safer Generative ConvAI
* *Date*: Jun 1, 2023, 15:00 CET
* *Summary*: Generative models for Conversational AI are less than a
decade old, but they hold great promise for human-machine
interactions. Machine responses based on generative models can seem
quite fluent and human-like, empathetic and funny, knowledgeable and
professional. However, behind the confident voice of generative
ConvAI systems, they can also be hallucinating misinformation,
giving biased and harmful views, and are still not "safe" enough for
many real life applications. The expressive power of generative
ConvAI models and their undesirable behavior are two sides of the
same coin. How can we harness the fluency, diversity, engagingness
of generative ConvAI models while mitigating the downside? In this
talk, I will present some of our team’s recent work in making
generative ConvAI safer via mitigating hallucinations,
misinformation, and toxicity.
* *Bio*: Pascale Fung is a Chair Professor at the Department of
Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology (HKUST), and a visiting professor at the
Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She is an elected Fellow of
the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI) for her "significant contributions to the field of
conversational AI and to the development of ethical AI principles
and algorithms", an elected Fellow of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her “significant contributions
towards statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building
intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans”.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE) for her “contributions to human-machine
interactions” and an elected Fellow of the International Speech
Communication Association for “fundamental contributions to the
interdisciplinary area of spoken language human-machine
interactions”. She is the Director of HKUST Centre for AI Research
(CAiRE). She was the founding chair of the Women Faculty Association
at HKUST. She is an expert on the Global Future Council, a think
tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on
Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. She is on the Board
of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is a member
of the IEEE Working Group to develop an IEEE standard - Recommended
Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence.
Her research team has won several best and outstanding paper awards
at ACL, ACL and NeurIPS workshops.
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HiTZ Zentroa
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