Vivek at Data Makers Fest, Porto, Portugal

10 November 2024

Dr. Vivek Kumar from AIML team, gave a talk Titled “Unlocking LLMs: Forgiving errors, risks & ethical responsibility” at the second edition of Data Makers Fest in Porto Portugal from September 24-25, 2024. The event is considered largest of its kind in Portugal boasting the talks by leading 50 dynamic researchers. In his talk, he presented the risks associated with using Large Language models in sensitive domains including psychotherapy in therapeutic settings. However, LLMs have proven to be useful but the safety concern in their unsupervised usage is a constant growing concern. In his talk he demonstrated the problems of LLMs such as hallucination and stochastic parroting by two use-cases. In addition, this year he also had the honour to moderate the session of LLMs and host the talks of leaders in data research.