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Friday, January 26, 2024
Tackling human-written disinformation and machine hallucinations
Professor Preslav Nakov has authored several studies that propose ways of identifying and combating the potentially harmful uses of large language models to generate false and misleading information.
Monday, June 12, 2023
Fact checking with ChatGPT
A datum is one discreet value in a collection of values that we commonly refer to as data. From these nuclear particles of philosophical and scientific thought we assemble what we understand as facts. And through the facts that we hear and read, we come to know the world of things that we cannot directly observe for ourselves. This is how we know "facts" about our immune system, about our economy, and our cosmos, for example.
Thursday, December 22, 2022
The war on fake news can be won
Tackling the threat posed by fake news can seem insurmountable because of the speed and scale with which it spreads. But Preslav Nakov, professor of natural language processing at MBZUAI and a world expert on disinformation, is confident we can turn back the tide.
Saturday, July 09, 2022
On a mission to end fake news
The Republic of Finland is known globally for snow, happiness, and more recently, their efforts to limit the impact of fake news on their population. Through massive investments in education, fake news has, by some accounts, been sidelined. It's a phenomenon not too dissimilar to spam email — a costly problem from decades past that, thanks to machine learning as well as user awareness, has largely been relegated to the trash bin of our collective inboxes.
Friday, July 01, 2022
MBZUAI faculty lead global conferences
For generations the peer review process has been a central part of conducting and publishing great science, and as such, is considered important for assessing the quality of faculty and their work. In AI and related disciplines - both publishing in conference proceedings and leadership of conferences - are indicators of quality. MBZUAI faculty, for example, have led or co-led a remarkable number of top, global AI conferences in 2022 including the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR 2022), and the conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).