The official minister of Education and Science, Prof. Galin Tsokov, and the Mayor of Sofia - Vasil Terziev, will open the international forum "Up to GATE" on November 20. Technology, Big Data & Beyond. 5 Years of Innovation”.
Scientists and industry leaders from around the world will discuss the hot topics related to smart solutions through modern technologies to important problems for society in the areas of digital health, cities of the future, smart government and smart industry.
The main speaker at the forum will be the world-renowned Bulgarian scientist in the field of artificial intelligence Prof. Dr. Preslav Nakov. He is known as the creator of artificial intelligence – “hunter“ of fake news, and before it is even written.
After graduating “Informatics“ in SU “St. Kliment Ohridski“, Prof. Nakov is defending his PhD in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Then he became the first winner of the “John Atanasov” award. He has worked in some of the most prestigious universities in the world – as a Research Fellow at the Qatar Institute for Computing Research at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar (2011-2022) and at the National University of Singapore (2008-2011), Honorary Lecturer at Sofia University (2008, 2014) . - currently) and a research assistant at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2008). He is currently the head of the “Natural Language Processing“ in the United Arab Emirates, at the University of Artificial Intelligence “Mohammed bin Zayed“ (MBZUAI).
His research interests include computational linguistics and natural language processing, large-scale language models (LLM), fact-checking, disinformation, propaganda, fake news, machine-generated text detection. He is part of the core team that developed Jais, the world's best Arabic-oriented open source LLM, Nanda, the world's best Hindi model, and LLM360, the first truly open LLM.
Prof. Nakov led the Tanbih mega-project, developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which aims to limit the impact of “fake news”, propaganda and media bias by making consumers aware of what they are reading, thus promoting media literacy and critical thinking.
During his participation in the forum, Prof. Preslav Nakov will focus on the challenges related to the factology of large language models (LLM). It will address the fight against disinformation in the age of GenAI. It will examine the potential of using large-scale language models (LLM) to combat disinformation. I will present new approaches recently developed at MBZUAI - such as a tool for fact-checking in text and for benchmarking LLM targets, a tool for predicting the uncertainty of LLM in its results, and a tool for detecting machine-generated text. It will also analyze the risks of disinformation contamination with LLM.
The forum will also focus on the potential of data spaces to create value in the data economy and business models that lead to the discovery of new revenue streams and drive innovation. The panel dedicated to urban digital counterparts and data spaces as key technologies for the development of a smarter and greener urban environment will take participants into the future of sustainable cities. The European AI Regulation Hot Topic will cover cutting-edge concepts for policy prototyping, experimental regulation, regulatory “sandboxes”, and auditing and governance of AI systems.