Today’s guest is Deepak John Reji, Senior Data Scientist, and associated with University of Limerick. Discussing Deepak’s AI Awards 2024 nomination in the Best Use of Responsible AI an Ethics category, this episode centres around the challenges and opportunities in creating safe and responsible large language models (LLMs) that strive to reduce bias and bolster ethical AI practices.

Topics include:

0:00 Mitigating bias in AI through fine-tuned LLMs

5:23 Challenges in curating unbiased data and training models

8:39 How bias perception varies by context, demographics and culture

11:29 How diverse annotators ensured culturally representative bias assessments

12:53 Enabling scalable, domain-specific LLM solutions through Instruction-led fine-tuning

15:21 Focus on responsible AI, integrating ethics and cognitive science