MitWissenschaft Extra. Sprachmodelle und Künstliche Intelligenz

In the organizer's words:

Applications based on artificial intelligence have become an integral part of everyday life. In the background are always large language models (LLMs) that are trained with huge amounts of text.

However, although Chinese and Spanish are the most widely spoken native languages in the world and Arabic and Hindi each have around 350 million native speakers, the underlying language models are based on English. What does this mean for smaller or indigenous languages, which are much rarer or not found at all in the digital space? What challenges and opportunities arise for them in an increasingly globalized world? How can we ensure that lesser-used languages are also heard in the digital world? Experts from various fields share their perspectives and discuss whether and how we can promote diversity in the digital space.

Contributors

Aljoscha Burchardt is Principal Researcher and Deputy Site Spokesperson at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Berlin. He is an expert in language technology and artificial intelligence. Burchardt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and Deputy Chairman of the Berlin Scientific Society. He was also an expert member of the German Bundestag's Enquete Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Abake Adenle (PhD) is an engineer, entrepreneur and financial strategist. She is the founder and CEO of ajala.ai, a company that develops natural language and language processing applications and digital solutions for African languages. Adenle developed the SpeakYoruba app and won the 2021 Diversity Equity Inclusion Award from Women in Voice for her efforts to expand language AIs to African languages.

Nathalie Keurmeur is a cultural scientist with a focus on digital media. She has been responsible for the conception, planning and curation of digital content at the Humboldt Forum since 2015.

Uta Kornmeier is an art and cultural historian and curator for science and research at the Academy of the Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace.

- free of charge

- from 16 years

- Language: German

- Room 3, ground floor

- Part of: WithScience