⚠️ A valid COVID certificate must be presented on site to enter the event. ⚠️

In 1950, Alan Turing proposed his famous test to distinguish humans from machines. At the time, he probably didn't think workshop participants would attempt to beat his test with billion parameter models in real-time. But here we are!

This workshop has two parts: In the first half, we will take a deep dive into conversational AI. By mastering a series of small tasks, you will discover what makes state-of-the-art models like GPT-3 so powerful and how you can build your own models.

In the second half, we will run a challenge in which you will work on building the most life-like bot possible and test it in a real-life setting. You will also have the chance to evaluate other participants’ bots - but with a twist! Every now and then you will actually chat with a real human. Will you be able to tell?

Participants will learn the nuts and bolts of building an open domain chat bot. We will attempt to dive relatively deep in the self attention mechanisms of large transformer models but also focus on the practical aspects of language model finetuning. During the challenge, participants will be faced with the difficulties of evaluating language models properly and learn how to integrate their models in actual applications.

• Basic Python & Machine Learning understanding
• A laptop
• A Google account