Press coverage

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).

European Research Council

AI is getting better and better at processing texts. But what about »living texts« – texts that dynamically evolve through revisions over time? The European Research Council has produced a short video about the UKP Lab project »InterText« and interviewed Iryna Gurevych on her work.

hessian.AI

The main research focus of the UKP Lab is Natural Language Processing (NLP). But how could NLP help improve our mental health? Iryna Gurevych was interviewed by Hessian.AI , the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence, about this very issue – but also about how AI is changing our societies right now.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Iryna Gurevych was interviewed in a radio feature by the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk . The topic was the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

A guest commentary by Iryna Gurevych about ChatGPT and Large Language Models in general was published this weekend in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

dghd – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik

Dr. Thomas Arnold from UKP Lab gave the German-language talk »ChatGPT for non-informaticians« for the dghd – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik last week, which can now be viewed on Youtube.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Iryna Gurevych was quoted in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the potential of AI systems like ChatGPT.

Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Iryna Gurevych is quoted in a feature about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, that was published by German broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk .

heise online

Do schools and universities need to rethink? And what challenges does ChatGPT present them with? German tech news site heise online published an article this week in which Iryna Gurevych is quoted.

F.A.Z. Podcast Künstliche Intelligenz

Iryna Gurevych was interviewed on the »Podcast Künstliche Intelligenz«, a format of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, about ChatGPT, its functionality and its possible applications.

GEO+

How do afterlife apps simulate conversations with the deceased? An article in GEO+ that discusses the use of voicebots in grief recovery also quotes Professor Iryna Gurevych.

TU Darmstadt

Iryna Gurevych has been appointed to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). The institution is a cross-disciplinary and cross-national association of outstanding scientists with more than 300 years of tradition. It serves, among other things, the advancement of science, performs tasks of social and political consulting, and promotes the dialogue between science and society.

Frankfurter Rundschau

In an article about the history of the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, the Frankfurter Rundschau also mentions the award of the European Research Grant to Iryna Gurevych and the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab.

Darmstädter Echo

The Darmstädter Echo reports that Iryna Gurevych has been awarded the Loewe Top Professorship and a grant of 2.52 million euros for the next five years by the state of Hesse.