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Large language models (LLMs) are deep learning algorithms trained on vast amounts of text to learn billions of mathematical relationships between words (also called ‘parameters’). They are familiar to most of us as the algorithmic basis for chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and PaLM, used for Google’s Bard. Today’s largest models have hundreds of billions of parameters, also costing in the billions of dollars to train.

Large language models (LLMs) are deep learning algorithms trained on vast amounts of text to learn billions of mathematical relationships between words (also called ‘parameters’). They are familiar to most of us as the algorithmic basis for chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and PaLM, used for Google’s Bard. Today’s largest models have hundreds of billions of parameters, also costing in the billions of dollars to train.

EPFL (the Swiss federal institute of technology in Lausanne) and The Geneva Graduate Institute (formerly IHEID) have signed an agreement to create the Swiss PeaceTech Alliance, which will bring together complementary knowledge needed to build capacity internationally in the field of PeaceTech. The partners are very proud to further announce that the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP) has also decided to join the alliance.

The Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai organized a talk focusing on the three key pillars of innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development at the thematic Global Goals Week of Expo 2020,

Tech4Dev, an EPFL program to develop technology that addresses the specific needs and living conditions of communities in the developing world, has...