NorwAI News Archive 2023
NorwAI News Archive 2023
Kerstin Bach new research director of NorwAI
Three years into NorwAI’s work periode, professor Kerstin Bach is appointed the new scientific director of the research center. Her predecessor is off on sabbatical. Nevertheless, there is anticipation tied to her taking on the new position.
2023-10-06
New language model for public use this winter
- NorwAI will meet the immense interest to work with language models with an open model, smaller thant that of the research model NorGPT-23 but will still be fully operational, says Jon Atle Gulla, professor and director at NorwAI.
2023-10-06
Upgrading infrastucture is critical to meet AI demands
Upgrading the national infrastructures are critical steppingstones to be prepared for the quantum leap technology now is facing.
Photo: Kai TY. Dragland, NTNU
2023-08-11
Amerikanske språkmodeller påvirker ChatGPT. Det er problematisk.
-Flere problemer melder seg ved kunstig intelligens. Nå trenger vi å ta kontroll over infrastrukturen, sier Sven Størmer Thaulow, EVP og Chief Data and Technology Officer i Schibsted ASA.
2023-07-05
Record participants number at AI summer school
Almost 700 applied to join the The Nordic Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) in Trondheim in June. 160 passed the needle’s eye.
Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU
2023-06-26
Schibsted reports on their AI results
2023-05-15
A national call for cooperation Media to contribute to NorwAI’s LLM
2023-05-15
Large language models as public goods
Large language models have huge potential for value creation - but there is a strong need to address issues of control and risk mitigation.
Academic coordinator
Schibsted Products & Technology
We are now moving towards a huge change in intellectual value creation, powered by the weird and surprisingly sophisticated mimicry of intelligence powered by large language models (LLMs).
These models have unleashed a wave of creativity. They, and their model cousins that can process, transform and generate sound, images and any digitizable data, have enabled previously impossible products and services along with a torrent of hype.
Due to the enormous amounts of data, compute and brain power required, these important platforms are now mostly developed and controlled by a few very large private technology companies in the US. This is problematic, because along with all the interesting new functionality, large language models also suffer from serious and complicated challenges such as bias, hallucinations and toxicity. Private companies will invariably balance mitigating these issues with the need for profit. They are likely to do the bare minimum required to avoid regulatory retribution and public relations backlash.
2023-03-28
Research stay at Brown university
Katarzyna Michalowska, one of the NorwAI PhD students and researcher at SINTEF Digital is halfway into a one-year research stay at Brown University in the United States as a part of the NorwAI project. Katarzyna shares her experiences so far from working with the CRUNCH group at Brown.
2023-02-09
ChatGPT and its inner workings
Media insiders from seven countries got a lecture from NorwAI researcher Benjamin Kille as the interest to know more about the new language models dominated the discussions at a media lab day in Hamburg, Germany.
2023-01-31
NorwAI to introduce large Norwegian GPT model
NorwAI GPT Language Modeling Project is currently building its version of a large Norwegian model. The model will go into training this spring and will be ready for demonstrations for interested partners, says NorwAI head professor Jon Atle Gulla.
Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU
2023-01-31