Schibsted reports on their AI results

Schibsted reports on their AI results 

Sven Størmer Thaulow on stage
Schibsted EVP, Chief Technology and Data Officer, Sven Størmer Thaulow was invited to the main media executive meeting in Norway to report on their initiatives in AI.

2023-05-15 


A national call for cooperation - Media to contribute to NorwAI’s LLM

A national call for cooperation Media to contribute  to NorwAI’s LLM 

Sven Størmer Thaulow on stage
Sven Størmer Thaulow reached out to his fellow media colleagues when he addressed Norwegian media executives at “Medialeder” – the yearly gathering of top media management in Norway on May 10th in Bergen.

2023-05-15 


Large language models as public goods

Large language models as public goods

Large language models have huge potential for value creation - but there is a strong need to address issues of control and risk mitigation.  

Portrait Eiviind THrondsen
Eivind Throndsen 
Academic coordinator  
Schibsted Products & Technology  

We are now moving towards a huge change in intellectual value creation, powered by the weird and surprisingly sophisticated mimicry of intelligence powered by large language models (LLMs). 

These models have unleashed a wave of creativity. They, and their model cousins that can process, transform and generate sound, images and any digitizable data,  have enabled previously impossible products and services along with a torrent of hype. 

Due to the enormous amounts of data, compute and brain power required, these important platforms are now mostly developed and controlled by a few very large private technology companies in the US. This is problematic, because along with all the interesting new functionality, large language models also suffer from serious and complicated challenges such as bias, hallucinations and toxicity. Private companies will invariably balance mitigating these issues with the need for profit. They are likely to do the bare minimum required to avoid regulatory retribution and public relations backlash.  

2023-03-28


Research stay at Brown university

Research stay at Brown university

Katarzyna Michalowska, one of the NorwAI PhD students and researcher at SINTEF Digital is halfway into a one-year research stay at Brown University in the United States as a part of the NorwAI project. Katarzyna shares her experiences so far from working with the CRUNCH group at Brown.

Katarzyna in front of gates at Brown University
Katarzyna Michalowska at Brown University

2023-02-09 


ChatGPT and its inner workings

ChatGPT and its inner workings

Media insiders from seven countries got a lecture from NorwAI researcher Benjamin Kille as the interest to know more about the new language models dominated the discussions at a media lab day in Hamburg, Germany.

Portrait Benjamin Kille
Benjamin Kille, Post doctoral fellow, Department of Computer Science, NTNU
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2023-01-31


Norwegian GPT model to be introduced

NorwAI to introduce large Norwegian GPT model 

NorwAI GPT Language Modeling Project is currently building its version of a large Norwegian model. The model will go into training this spring and will be ready for demonstrations for  interested partners,  says NorwAI head professor Jon Atle Gulla.

Jon Atle Gulla speaking on stage
- This will be a major result for NorwAI so far, says Professor Jon Atle Gulla. 
Photo: Kai T. Dragland, NTNU

2023-01-31