For this monthly seminar series, we invite colleagues from the Humanities and Social Sciences to present how they have leveraged artificial intelligence in their own research methodology. The seminars are practically oriented demonstrations of instances of implementing AI at any stage of research, including data preparation, annotation, analysis or anything else. The seminars should serve as a platform not only to showcase uses of AI and get feedback on this, but also for participants to get inspiration for their own research and potentially as an opportunity to further collaboration.
DigiTS AI-teh seminar #4:
05.10 Krister Kruusmaa, AI Alignment Lead (Institute of the Estonian Language), Visiting Lecturer of AI and Digital Humanities (Tallinn University)
“Aligned to Whom? Evaluating AI Across Languages and Cultures”
Large language models are increasingly both the instruments and the objects of humanities research, yet they behave differently in every language and culture. This talk is about the values, attitudes and cultural knowledge models carry, as well as the practice of measuring this. Drawing on Estonia’s public LLM leaderboard, I will discuss how cultural traits of AI feed back into our information space and what that means for anyone who studies or relies on these tools.
Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/KFQViWhGGN
Additional information about the seminar series: digits.ut.ee/ai-teh
The event takes place in Tartu (Jakobi 2-114) and via Zoom. AI-teh seminars are organised by the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS). DigiTS is a project funded by the European Union under grant agreement ID 101186601.
