ERCIM News No. 136 Special Theme "Large Language Models (LLMs)"

Dear ERCIM News reader,

A new ERCIM News issue (136) is online with a special theme on Large Language Models (LLMs). This issue features articles on diverse topics, such as LLMs in education and professional training, ethics and fairness in public sector use, knowledge management, information retrieval, software modeling, LLM capability assessment, and advancements like enhanced pre-training efficiency.

You can access the issue at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/

This special theme was coordinated by our guest editors Diego Collarana Vargas (Fraunhofer FIT) and Nassos Katsamanis (Athena RC).
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Next issue:

No. 137, April 2024
Special Theme: "Extended Reality". Submissions are welcome! See call for contributions.

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Of note:
Chatbots & Socrates: Dialogues in Learning. pp.18-20.
Towards AI-Assisted Data Storytelling. pp.28-29.

BCS SGAI: One day event on 'The Rise of AI in the Healthcare Ecosystem'

 BCS SPECIALIST GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (BCS SGAI)

The Rise of AI in the Healthcare Ecosystem

November 10th 2023 - British Computer Society London Office (near Moorgate Underground) 

Second Invitation to Register

A full-day event with invited talks on the following topics:

 

·       What are the things that AI can help with in the healthcare ecosystem?

·       Semantic Deep Learning for One Health: combining Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models

·       Biomarkers and Personalised Medicine: how can AI be used for Omics Data Integration, Interpretation, and Its Application?

·       AI in Next Generation Stroke Rehabilitation

·       Machine Readable Healthcare Data Formats using FHIR

·       What SNOMED wants to be, how clinicians actually use it and what lurks in large coded clinical datalakes?

·       Bringing clinical guidelines closer to the bedside with AI techniques

 

Full details are available at http://www.bcs-sgai.org/health2023/

 

The delegate fee is £90 plus VAT for BCS and SGAI members and £110 plus VAT for others. This includes attendance at the event, lunch and refreshments. A special rate of £50 plus VAT is available for students. A Group Discount Rate is available for group bookings of three or more.

 

There is an online registration form at

http://www.bcs-sgai.org/health2023/?section=registration

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To register for future mailings about SGAI events go to http://www.bcs-sgai.org/register/.

 

Max Bramer
Chair BCS Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (bcs-sgai.org)

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[ I am looking to attend - travel - trains and industrial action - permitting. ]