Bay Area Monthly AI Safety Meetup (August) w Nvidia, Sparkbeyond, Psyfy Inc
August edition of the monthly academic salon discussing all aspects under the critical topic of AI safety.
TLDR: Bringing together scholastic exercises with enterprise work in AI, this is a forum to discuss and address the deepest technical and ethical questions around AI safety in use within society. Primarily a social event to discuss current issues, featuring lightning talks while leaving more time for Q&A that could instigate a larger scope for any solutions.
Talks this month:
Sergey Davidovich, SparkBeyond, "Can LLMs computationally validate ideas?"
Lucia Chen, Psyfy.ai "A Framework for Evaluating Appropriateness, Trustworthiness, and Safety in Mental Wellness AI Chatbots" - here is a link to this paper
Osvald Nitski, Nvidia, "Human annotation for evaluating and steering LLMs, learnings from Nemotron4"
Schedule:
5:30pm - Doors / pizza
6:30pm - Lightning Talks w Q&A (5-10 min)
7:00pm - Discussion
8:30pm - Shutting it down