Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, Darmstädter Echo et al.

The presentation of the 2025 Milner Award by the Royal Society to our director Iryna Gurevych was accompanied by broad media coverage. Among others, the following newspapers reported: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: »Royal Society ehrt Darmstädter Informatikerin«, September 02, 2024. Frankfurter Rundschau: »KI-Pionierin ausgezeichnet«, August 29, 2024.

Frankfurter Rundschau | Tagesspiegel

The publication of our study on Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models has been covered by numerous national and international media in Germany and worldwide. Lengthy features have just been published in the German newspapers Frankfurter Rundschau and Tagesspiegel , and other articles have appeared in media such as (among others) India Today , Deutsche Welle , Evangelische Zeitung , MSN.com , ScienceBlog, EurekAlert! , Science Alert , Computer Sweden and IFLScience .

TU Darmstadt | Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw)

According to a new study conducted by TU Darmstadt's UKP Lab, AI models such as ChatGPT are apparently less capable of learning independently than previously assumed. According to the study, there is no evidence that what are known as large language models (LLMs) are beginning to develop a general »intelligent« behaviour that would enable them to proceed in a planned or intuitive manner or to think in a complex way. The study »Are Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models just In-Context Learning?« was led by UKP director Prof. Iryna Gurevych and her colleague Dr. Harish Tayyar Madabushi from the University of Bath (UK). It will be presented in August at the annual conference of the renowned Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Bangkok, the largest international conference on automatic language processing.

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

How did different social groups react on X/Twitter to the COVID-19 measures? And how did this influence public opinion? Prof. Marcus Maurer, together with Prof. Iryna Gurevych co-director of our research project KoPoCoV, was recently interviewed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on this topic.

WandelBar Podcast

What connects Olaf Scholz, interdisciplinary computer scientists and AI? The Medienzentrum Darmstadt-Dieburg has interviewed our director Iryna Gurevych in the WandelBar podcast about Natural Language Processing, everyday uses of Artificial Intelligence and the development of AI in the near future.

MIRACUM DIFUTURE Journal

The UKP Lab and TU Darmstadt are partners in the project GeMTeX, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and started one year ago. The main goal of the GemTeX project is to generate a large annotated text corpus of German medical texts from the routine patient care. Read more about how our tool INCEpTION is being used to do exactly that in the current issue of the MIRACUM DIFUTURE Journal.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

AI is becoming more sophisticated, but can we trust what it tells us? An article in the renowned German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung explores the dangers of ›AI hallucinations‹ and features insights from our director Iryna Gurevych on how to safeguard against them.

Frankfurter Rundschau

The prestigious German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau has just published an in-depth feature about our director, Iryna Gurevych. The article not only delves into Gurevych's personal background and scientific journey, but also explores a groundbreaking new frontier in natural language processing – its potential to revolutionize mental health support for young people.

manager magazin

The German business magazine manager magazin has just published a list of the 15 most important female AI pioneers in Germany. In the article our director Iryna Gurevych is named as one of the top AI visionaries in Germany.

TU Darmstadt

The Presidium of the Leopoldina has appointed Iryna Gurevych as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. The appointment is considered one of the highest scientific honors that a German institution can bestow.

MIT Technology Review

The current issue of the German MIT Technology Review is titled »Our Guide through the Crisis Labyrinth« and is dedicated to the great challenges of our time. The issue also includes an article on AI hallucinations, for which our director Iryna Gurevych was interviewed.

ELLIS

Natural Language Processing has seen tremendous development in the last years. New advancements are often driven by large teams with good coordination and access to significant computational resources. The ELLIS program »Natural Language Processing« connects top scientists in this field across Europe to foster cooperation & knowledge exchange. Directors of the program are Iryna Gurevych, Professor at the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Darmstadt, André Martins, Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal), and Ivan Titov, Professor and Personal Chair in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh (UK). Read here why they see pan-European cooperation as the key to progress.

Hessischer Rundfunk, ARD

»Are the machines taking over now?« is the title of a TV documentary of the German public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, for which several experts from TU Darmstadt were interviewed – including Professor Iryna Gurevych. The feature can now be found in the ARD Mediathek.

Frankfurter Rundschau

Several news media report that a team from the UKP Lab has received funding from Amazon for its research in the field of Machine Learning. It is the second research grant from the U.S. company to go to TU Darmstadt in two years. The team will collaborate with AI researchers from Amazon Alexa in Berlin as part of the grant.

Museumsfernsehen

How best to use large language models and applications such as ChatGPT is also on the minds of people in the cultural sector – including those working in Germany's 7,000 or so museums. In April, Professor Iryna Gurevych gave a presentation at the online workshop »GPT for archives and museums? Understanding and Using Large Language Models« of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. A video of the talk is now available online.

TU Darmstadt

A paper has recently been published in Nature Human Behaviour exploring the question of what prevents people from getting vaccinated. Our colleagues Iryna Gurevych and Luke Bates, as co-authors, looked at how Deep Learning can be used to identify anti-vaccination arguments.

hoch³

In the current issue of hoch³ , the magazine of TU Darmstadt, Professor Iryna Gurevych was interviewed under the headline »Currently more risk than real benefit« about LLMs and apps like ChatGPT.

Deutsches Ärzteblatt

The Science Media Center Germany is a journalistic, independent and non-profit institution that provides journalists with facts and expertise on scientific publications. Our colleagues Iryna Gurevych and Ji-Ung Lee were asked by them to comment on whether a model sucessfully detects if scientific texts were created by AI. The resulting press release can be found here and was picked up by several German media, including the Deutsches Ärzteblatt , one of the official publications of the German Medical Association (GMA).