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Prof. Lonneke van der Plas, Group Leader at Idiap, Computation, Cognition & Language
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024 · 9 a.m. · 08m 28s
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of the perspectives of a i a series um so after we
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had our apology we had learning from complex and a small data sets
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and after that we had pricey insecurity and today we're talking about the impact of a a ah democracy
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um so i would just first start by thanking our uh sponsors so oh well
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volunteers here it it yep it up for organising this and also
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uh our our our sponsors like a set w. for example the r.
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oh i see t. buyouts uh this was instituted by informatics at
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if the the the the martini and the count on off balance
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and today we have other special media partners within four thank you for
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for being here because without these people actually it wouldn't be possible
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to create an event that is as accessible as this event is and
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and accessibility is very important for us because when we are together with my colleague who's also um
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at the idea of research institute leading a research group just as i am
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a note of value is ca you also u. meter in the in the afternoon
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when we started thinking of for the first time about this series we we just talk to each other and we said you know a i has now
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i'll come to such immaturity that it is no longer just the job of
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the eye specialists like we are here it it yep yep all e. i. specialist
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it's now everywhere and so it also has become a priority for a lot of people and not just for us and
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we can't really build good a. i. tools if we don't talk to people we don't hear the perspectives on a i
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from other people so that the what we're trying to do
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with uh the series is to bring people from different sectors
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angie those industry academics altogether and talk about
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the i and also in terms of academics
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we want to not just be a i specialise but also people working on social sciences
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other types of psychology whatever we want to work together with them so that's what was our idea and i think if we look
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a little bit at the program we we actually manage quite well to get these different perspectives together
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so just looking at the first session we're going to have
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the perspective from the media we're going to have government officials
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talking to us about what they're doing on a i there's
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academics automatic fact checking by andreas law house and we have also
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people working in companies trying to create tools that make democratic
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processes more um transparent for people so now that i've started
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talking about program let's go on with that so after this first session will have a coffee break i'm sorry for people that
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expected coffee when they arrived to have to wait a little bit longer hope you manage
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they will be coffee break soon after the coffee break which actually will be a little bit longer than we expected
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because the first dog unfortunately uh by professor so launch
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can o. t. can take place because uh of health reasons
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uh but after that we'll have claimed verification from a google to mind uh
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a staff julian i senseless and after that we're going to look at yet another perspective from political
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psychology on the topic of a i for democracy will have a morning panel after that and so
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what will happen is you won't be able to to ask questions after each talk
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because we want to go quickly uh with all the stocks but you'll be able to
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uh ask questions in an apt that i will talk to you about later and in the morning
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panel we're going to discuss these questions and a general questions post questions for all of the talks
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good i then i'll have a the lunch where we'll have posters and tools and actually you can already see the posters
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in the first coffee break because we have a bit of a longer coffee break and i'll then show you
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a little bit more in detail what these posters are about but there's they are looking very very interesting to me
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so then after known program we're going to have a legal perspective
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yet another perspective i'm very happy to have here and there be uh
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then use works talking about smart thought again a a tool that helps us uh for supporting democracy
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and we'll have joyce got you outsource who's going to talk
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about the more look into the future of where we going
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with the iron this is democracy ready for the age of a i'm
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there we undressed mar fourth who's talking about hallucinations as we all
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know that uh this is a problem of a large language models
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and we finish off by a very interesting talk where
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a a careful uh like creation of a corpus was built
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by uh on the front room yeah any for looking at misinformation language and learning
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about uh the nature of misinformation language after that we have a panel that will be
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sorry abraham at uh taking care of that from a swiss info and i will
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have a step on let's say from algorithm watch who will join us for that panel
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then all of the closing remarks by ravel we say with whom i organise the
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series or conceptual i. c. series uh more than one and a half years ago
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and then finally we have to approach so that's the program i'm just a few words about it yep so we're
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maybe some of you haven't been here before so once tell you a little bit about it so we have been founded in nineteen ninety one
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and you see the eye and a we've been doing a alright before everybody thought
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it was a good idea so uh we are independent we're not for profit research foundation
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and we are about eighteen or more p. eyes and the nice thing about this
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we're all under one roof and we're all working on a i but we all have our different types of expertise
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some of my colleagues know everything about how to deal with images of videos whereas i'm working on language for example
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so we have very complimentary expertise and was also special we have an r. d. team
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that helped to transfer all our knowledge uh so that we have a better impact on society
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so anyway for society is our motto and we have these for research programs
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that gather all the p. eyes and we work on these topics together so
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start with the first one human a. i. teaming soap this is something
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we've been doing ads it yep since long time so we believe that
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human anyway i should team up so systems with uh how humans to um empower
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them and and and the other and also a i systems can learn from humans
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uh then we have a i for life where we're looking at a i. systems that
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can help us help the life sciences but also just to create better health for the society
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and there's a i for everyone that looks at how to build a ice isn't that are inclusive so not just say i systems
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for the rich powerful hand the mainstream but also for people that are living in poor
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countries or that speak a language it not so many people speak or people with disabilities
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and then the last one yeah i for sustainable enters in in societies is where
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current um uh symposium actually is a placed so uh here we're looking at
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how to build a i tools that can help societies be more sustainable
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with with a view of all the climate crisis is that we have
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and also to be more resilience hand i think that democratic
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resilience is a very important topic that we're going to address today
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so what if little worried about organisation before we move on to sarah stock
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um so presentations well directly follow one another there's no time for questions
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but uh and i would ask the speakers to follow the directions from the
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chair and you know stop inside to keep a stick a little bit to the program hope i'm doing that as well actually not looking at time
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um yeah so so uh and then everybody who has a question go on the slide all apps so you see here
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you can use your smart phone and uh use a. q. arco to get to the slide oh a calm
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or you can type just inside oh calm and it's well uh you have to
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put that code as well but you see there and then you'll be able to put
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uh questions and you can if you have a question for specific speaker you
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can put the name of the speaker in front but if it's just a general
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question just put a general question and then you can up followed and all of
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that and the that'll be kind of democratic process of pat asking questions i think
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good and then these questions will be dealt with uh during the panels so that
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was all for me so i think we can move on to the next speaker
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Opening and introduction
Prof. Lonneke van der Plas, Group Leader at Idiap, Computation, Cognition & Language
Feb. 21, 2024 · 9 a.m.
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