Yet another thing we predicted in our 2021 forecast report! People having detailed & involved conversations with machines. Lots of risks as well as benefits. Read the news before it happens, download our forecast report now! doi.org/10.17011/jyx/r… arstechnica.com/?p=1979181

🗣️Meet #LITHME STSM grantee Joanna Dolińska Joanna Dolinska from the University of Warsaw, who visited Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen, University of Groningen to work with Matt Coler 🦣 @[email protected] on how #voicetechnology can benefit users of endangered Inner Asian and Southeast Asian languages: lithme.eu/category/news/

What's better than a super awesome training school? A FULLY FUNDED training school, inc. travel & accommodation! 27-31 May 2024 Univerzita Hradec Králové. All linguists & lang tech devs welcome, all levels of tech smarts! Deadline Tues 19 Dec 2023, 12:00 CET. lithme.eu/training-schoo…. Pls repost!

#LITHME STSM grantee Livio Robaldo from Swansea University’s Legal Innovation Lab Wales visited uni.lu to collaborate with Davide Liga, focusing on implementing #LLMs in the legal domain. Read about his experience here: lithme.eu/2023/10/30/sts…

Reminder - the call closes tomorrow at 12 CET: A FULLY FUNDED training school, inc. travel & accommodation! 27-31 May 2024 Univerzita Hradec Králové. All linguists & lang tech devs welcome, all levels of tech smarts! Deadline Tues 19 Dec 2023, 12:00 CET. lithme.eu/training-schoo…

Our article, Beyond the Front Yard: The Dehumanizing Message of Accent-Altering Technology, has just been published open access in Oxford Journals' Applied Linguistics! academic.oup.com/applij/article…

Important cautions on the risk of overestimating the capabilities of new and emerging language technologies.

A workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (#LUHME), jointly organized by chairs of #LITHME WGs 1 & 7 will be part of 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence @ecai2024 #ECAI24 on 19-20 Oct 2024. Abstracts: 15 May. More info: luhme.web.uah.es

Happy International Girls in #ICT Day!💜 Since its launch in 2020, the @GirlsGoCircular initiative has already empowered 40,000 girls with essential digital & entrepreneurial skills to evolve in a circular economy, across +30 🇪🇺 countries. Discover more eit-girlsgocircular.eu

What's better than a super awesome conference about future language tech? That's right, a FULLY FUNDED conference about future language tech @UCLouvain_be! 2-3 Sept 2024 No tech smarts needed, just interest in our themes. Deadline/eligibility etc: lithme.eu/conference2024. Go go!

Chloe Patman, our STSM grantee, commenting on her experience: I would recommend STSM 100%. The flexibility in terms of states, institutions and supervisors allows you to pick a place and person with very specific interests and what you want to look at.👇 lithme.eu/2024/05/13/sts…

Have you applied yet for our #LITHME conference ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era‘? ⏰The abstract submission deadline is approaching: 8 June 2024. More details👇👇👇

back in my day we called this spyware

Beware "a false narrative that as long as we can get the technology right, if we can "fix" it, using that technology will be alright. This is a misconception: we are not going to undo centuries of structural oppression by tweaking a few datasets." 👇 weforum.org/agenda/2021/07…

#LITHME Training School kicked off in Hradec Králové, Czechia, with WG1 speaking about advances in generative AI, followed by industry talk from Simax on sign language avatars. It will be an exciting week at Univerzita Hradec Králové! PS Check out the WG1 chair interview: rb.gy/e3b3x6

The deadline for #LUHME workshop has been extended to 15 June! More details in the original post below.

In "AI we could have had" - a six-page spread in tomorrow's FT Weekend - I argue that there used to be another, more humane way to think about intelligence, interactivity, smartness. Sadly, we blew it! An essay inspired by A SENSE OF REBELLION: ft.com/content/c63dae…