Events

BLISS AI SPEAKER SERIES #22: Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models Using Semantic Entropy

BLISS e.V. is excited to feature Jannik Kossen, Research Scientist at Meta AI and PhD Student at University of Oxford, who will discuss the topic: "Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models Using Semantic Entropy"

BIFOLD Colloquium 08/2025

Why are modern large language models (LLMs) so expensive to run? We argue that a major reason for this is the rapid growth of context lengths, enabling use cases such as code synthesis from an entire repository, chain of thought reasoning, agentic workflows with many tools, and chat conversations with many turns.

Lunch Talk: Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud - What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like?

Capturing the characteristics of real-world analytical workloads is challenging yet critical for advancing industry practices and academic research. Historically, obtaining accurate query and data characteristics has been difficult, largely because detailed workload information has often been confined to on-premises database systems.

Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)

How should we think about Ethics when Machines become part of our social worlds? Alan Winfield and Dafna Burema will explore the ethical and societal dimensions of robotics and AI in an interactive fishbowl and in conversation with Master`s students of the course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior”

BIFOLD Colloquium 09/2025

Database system designers aim at leveraging NVMe SSDs for overall performance and sustainability. Philippe Bonnet will start this talk by reviewing recent work, led by Gabriel Haas, showing that the choice of SSDs matter in this respect. 

Save the Date: AI Grid Annual Summit | October 8–9, 2025

This annual gathering is a chance for the community of young researchers, mentors, ambassadors, and partners to reconnect, exchange on research and career, and initiate new collaborations. Over two days, the AI community comes together for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, poster sessions and networking opportunities. To make sure you don’t miss it, please save the date by double-clicking the attached Outlook invitation to add it to your calendar. 

BIFOLD Colloquium 10/2025

This talk focus on results and showing benefits, advantages and potential of combining emergent technologies on emergent hardware architectures, providing an overview over a large range of topics. It dives into emergent hardware architectures like many-core cpus, GPUs and quantum computers, and its state-of-the-art and opportunities for research for data management.