A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The ZHAW School of Engineering’s first PhD Student Meetup created a space for participants to connect across institutes, share experiences, foster scientific collaborations, and plan future events, promising an exciting year ahead for 2025. In December 2024 a group of 17 PhD students from various departments of the School of Engineering met for the kick-off […]
What is the difference between human and ChatGPT’s understanding of language? Let’s ask linguistics. It’s over a year since ChatGPT’s release to the world. There is still a lot of hype going around regarding whether ChatGPT and its later versions, including GPT-4, have a “true” understanding of human language and whether we are now close […]
ChatGPT caused quite a stir. While impressive, it’s a “black box”: it’s unclear how it was trained, what data it used, and it cannot be fine-tuned for specific use cases or sensitive data. The release of the more transparent LLaMA model (and likely its leakage on the internet) has led to rapid model development. First, a new model was released every month, then every week, and now every second day. Keeping up with the latest advancements is challenging and exhausting, but this blog post offers a guide to running open-source language models locally for researchers and businesses.
A brave new World Every once in a while, a new technology with a significant societal impact comes along. To many, it seems that ChatGPT fits this criterion. Scrolling through Twitter and LinkedIn, one might get the impression that NLP is solved or that we are all doomed (depending on whom you follow). Although ChatGPT […]