Not unexpected, but didn't imagine it would come so soon.

Postdoc opening in Languages group at Google Deepmind based out of Bangalore

Topics: LLMs, multilinguality, multimodality, RAI, etc.

Strong candidates may apply by sending cv to [email protected] with [LLM-Postdoc] in subject by Apr 26

DM/email for any questions

AI understands just a tiny fraction of the thousands of languages used worldwide. That means the promised chatbot revolution could shut out billions of people, and even push some languages to extinction, Matteo Wong writes: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Inspired by sci-fi & a curiosity about language, researcher Kalika Bali works to bring the benefits of tech to under-resourced & underserved language communities. Learn about her research philosophy in the first episode of the new podcast series “Ideas.' msft.it/6010cAnT0

This thread is an absolute gem for anybody in research.

I wonder what would be the equivalent of this for GenAI. There's so little to understand and so much to memorize. Almost no principles yet no dearth of facts.

The Social Media & Society in India conference University of Michigan is on Apr 8-9, 2024, the largest conference of its kind featuring talks and workshops on culture, politics, industry, policy, and misinformation.

Register free to attend:

influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

In this week's newsletter, I use Louise Matsakis' excellent article in The Atlantic plus a recent chat with prof Monojit Choudhury as the starting point for a deep dive into why machine translation is still struggling with the world's most widely spoken languages: computerspeak.substack.com/p/why-machine-…

One JRF post available for research on explainable hate speech detection models from multimodal content. Application deadline: 4/4/2024. Please apply through the link: erp.iitkgp.ac.in/SRICStaffRecru…

Punyajoy Saha Mithun Das Naquee Rizwan CNeRG IIT KGP #NLProc

Found this book in my Uber car today. I asked the driver if a passenger had forgotten. 'No Sir, it is my book. For you to read and enjoy your ride' comes the reply.
Being a mythology fan, I was excited like a kid. But couldn't finish the story as it was a short ride.
#readandride

Calling parents and teachers of 4-10 yo:

Participate in a comparative user study for visual stories generated by AI to evaluate how well the outputs capture cultural nuances.

If you choose to participate, this hour-long user study will be conducted via video call in MS Teams

I will be presenting our work on multilingual evaluation of LLM based evaluators at #EACL2024 . Come say hi at our poster or HMU. See you in Malta. :D

From eaclmeeting venue
#eacl2024 #malta
Let's meet if you are attending.
#NLProc

The Social Media & Society in India symposium Apr 8-9, 2024 University of Michigan is free to attend online or in person.

A great line-up of speakers, plus attendees get office hours with speakers, plus consultations on doing social media research.

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Register here:
joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm