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LLMs for Everybody: How inclusive are the LLMs today and Why should we care?

Series: Department Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Monojit Choudhury, Natural Language Processing Mohd bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi

Date/Time: Jan 12 16:00:00

Location: CSA Lecture Hall (Room No. 112, Ground Floor)

Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of NLP and natural human-computer interactions; they hold a lot of promise, but are these promises equitable across countries, languages and other demographic groups? Research from our group as well as from around the world is constantly revealing that LLMs are biased in terms of their language processing abilities in most but a few of the worlds languages, cultural awareness (or lack thereof) and value alignment. In this talk, I will highlight some of our recent findings around value alignment bias in the models and argue why we need models that can reason generically across moral values and cultural conventions.
We will also discuss some of the opportunities for students at postgraduate, PhD and Post doctoral levels at the newly founded MBZUAI university.

Speaker Bio:
Monojit Choudhury is a professor of Natural Language Processing at Mohd bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi. Prior to this, he was a principal scientist at Microsoft Research Lab and Microsoft Turing, India. He is also a professor of practice at Plaksha University, and an adjunct professor at IIIT Hyderabad. Prof Choudhurys research interests lie in the intersection of NLP, Social and Cultural aspects of Technology use, and Ethics. In particular, he has been working on multilingual aspects of large language models (LLMs), their use in low resource languages and making LLMs more inclusive and safer by addressing bias and fairness aspects. Prof Choudhury is the general chair of Indian national linguistics Olympiad and the founding co-chair of Asia-Pacific linguistics Olympiad. He holds a BTech and PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Host Faculty: Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya