Online: OFAI 2023 Fall Lecture Series


OFAI is delighted to announce its 2023 Fall Lecture Series, featuring an eclectic lineup of internal and external speakers.

The talks are intended to familiarize attendees with the latest research developments in AI and related fields, and to forge new connections with those working in other areas.  The main theme of the current series is large language models.

Lectures will be held at 18:30 Vienna time online via Zoom
(meeting ID: 842 8244 2460; passcode: 678868);
in-person attendance at OFAI is also possible for certain lectures.
Attendance is open to the public and free of charge.
No registration is required.

Visit our Lecture Series web page for further details on the individual talks or to download a poster for the Series: https://www.ofai.at/lectures.

Lecture schedule:

11 October 2023 at 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield)
Linguistics and Symbolic Computation in a World of Large Models

23 October 2023 at 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
Simon Penny (University of California Irvine and Nottingham Trent University)
Skill: Know-how, Artisanal Practices and ‚Higher‘ Cognition

8 November 2023 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Erich Prem (University of Vienna)
Ethics of AI: Good AI Versus the Totalitarian Enforcement of Norms

22 November 2023 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna)
Do Large Language Models Grasp Metaphors?

6 December 2023 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Ivan Habernal (Paderborn University)
Privacy in Natural Language Processing: Are we There yet?

20 December 2023 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University)
Linguistics and Symbolic Computation in a World of Large Language Models

17 January 2024 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Stefanie Höhl (University of Vienna)
Social Rhythms and Biobehavioral Synchrony in Early Human Development

31 January 2024 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Clemens Heitzinger (TU Wien)
Reinforcement Learning and its Application in Medicine and Large Language Models

14 February 2024 at 18:30 CET (UTC+1)
Brigitte Krenn and Stephanie Gross (OFAI)
Bias in Language Models Illustrated by the Example of Gender

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