An Evening with ChatGPT

On Wednesday the 18th of January 2023 (17:00-200:00), the Computational Linguistics group (or GroNLP) organized a special event about ChatGPT. The main purpose was to answer questions about ChatGPT that many (if not all) academics are currently concerned with. What can it do? How does it work? How will it impact teaching? How will it impact society? What are the next steps? Not all these questions have definitive answers, but it is good to start the conversation. It was attended by over 150 people, mostly from the Faculty of Arts. The program was as follows:

• Introduction (presented by Malvina Nissim)
• What can it (not) do (presented by Rik van Noord)
• How does it work (presented by Gabriele Sarti)
• Ethical Issues (presented by Arianna Bisazza)
• Impact on Education and Society (presented by Tommaso Caselli)

This was followed by a long informal Q&A session, in which attendees could directly ask questions to the experts of the GroNLP group.

If you missed it, don't worry, since the recording is available on Youtube (also see below). Moreover, the slides are also publicly available.