Episode 5: Academic Insights on AI

About this episode

Professor Isabelle Augenstein discusses insights into large language models and their expected outputs.

Our guest is Professor Isabelle Augenstein from the Copenhagen University computer science department, where she heads a team dealing with natural language processing. Professor Augenstein shares her deep insights into how large language models work and what we as users can expect – or not – from the output. Music: Title:Days Past. Author: In Closing. Source: In Closing - Days Past (auboutdufil.com) . Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.fr

People in this episode

Guest: Professor Isabelle Augenstein

Topics covered

• AI
• natural language processing
• large language models

Keywords

• Copenhagen University
• computer science
• user expectations

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Days Past, In Closing, In Closing - Days Past

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