The LIAvignon chair, supported by the FrenchTech GrandeProvence, will organize a conference-debate on AI at Avignon University on November 15: self-supervised learning giga models, evolution or revolution? With or without Europe? LIAvignon, the partnership chair in AI at Avignon University, is part of the "Culture, Heritage, Digital Societies" identity axis. It is interested in the human being as seen through language technologies, with a focus on the three axes of speaker, voice and speech. It was founded by the Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon (LIA), Orange, Airbus D&S, Ingenico Group, Bertin IT, LNE, Validsoft, Orkis and the Cerco Group. The chair also relies on the Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Informatique (CERI), with its master's degree in computer science dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Its objective is to combine academic and industrial expertise for efficient and human-friendly language technologies.

Are giga-models exclusive to GAFAM?

GOPHER, BERT, GPT-3, DALL-E, MT-NLG, have all made the news in AI. These very powerful models, with billions of parameters, have all been created by the digital giants. The conference-debate organized by the LIAvignon Chair aims to answer the following questions: are these models a simple step or do they mark a new era? Does their gigantism still allow academic researchers or companies other than GAFAM to participate in the movement?

The conference-debate

Corinne Fredouille and Jean-François Bonastre, both professors at the LIA, will lead the conference. Speakers will include:
  • Mathilde Caron - Researcher - Google;
  • Thomas Wang - Machine Learning Engineer, HuggingFace;
  • Emilie Chouzenoux - Research Fellow, OPIS, Inria Saclay;
  • Caroline PetitJean - Professor, LITIS, University of Rouen;
  • Gilles Adda - Research Engineer, LISN, CNRS;
  • Yannick Estève - Professor, LIA, Avignon University;
  • Ariane Nabeth-Halber - AI Director, Viadialog;

The program

  • Welcome from 4:30 pm to 5 pm
  • Introductory conference from 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm: "Foundation models", what are they? with Ariane Nabeth-Halber & Yannick Estève
  • 17h45-19h45 : Round table and exchanges with Mathilde Caron, Thomas Wang, Emilie Chouzenoux, Caroline PetitJean, Gilles Adda, Yannick Estève, Ariane Nabeth-Halber
Pre-registration required here Translated from La chaire LIAvignon organise une conférence-débat sur l'intelligence artificielle

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