Ready for the LLM Hackathon for Materials and Chemistry!?

At EPFL we'll be hosting the Lausanne on-site event!
From May 8th to 10th, join us for some pizza 🍕 and Mate 🧉, and don't forget to bring your awesome projects 🚀

LIAC at EPFL NCCR Catalysis EPFL_AI_Center

Curious about what’s on the horizon for sustainable chemical research? 🌱🧪🌍 Join us for the NCCR Catalysis Sustainability Day 2024 on 6 May in Bern, where we will catch a glimpse of what’s ahead!
Program and in-person/Zoom sign-up until 3 May 👉🏻 evaluation-app1.let.ethz.ch/TakeSurvey.asp…

Learning Rust be like

Join us this weekend for a 54-hour hackathon to identify critical risks of AI self-replication at the METR x Apart LLM Testing Hackathon! Win up to $4,000 in prizes and co-author with METR. Don't miss out - register now at go.epfl.ch/llm-testing-ha…

It's #NeurIPS2023 week 🎉 Great to see #NCCRCatalysis PhD students Víctor Sabanza Gil Oliver Schilter BOjana Ranković and Andrés M Bran with our Data Officer Romain Graux in New Orleans!

Check out their #compchem presentations and posters if you're at NeurIPS! 🧪🖥️

Join us this weekend at EPFL for a 48-hour hackathon on Model Evaluations, where we'll delve into the risks and design evaluations for understanding dangerous capabilities of language models. To secure your spot, visit lu.ma/model-evaluati…

As AI's capabilities improve, it gains the potential to radically transform society.

It’s not hard to imagine how this might go badly.

We think risks from advanced AI are probably the world’s most pressing problem — our 10-minute explainer sets out why:

Join us at EPFL for a 48-hour hackathon on Multi-Agent Safety! Uncover AI failures and explore solutions. Plus, you could co-author a paper! 📝🤖 Register at lu.ma/multi-agent-ha… #Hackathon #AI #MultiAgentSafety #EPFL #AlignmentJam

🇨🇭Just wrapped up our Swiss AI Safety camp! Had a blast leading the technical sessions for these incredible people. The content of the camp can be accessed at github.com/Swiss-AI-Safet…

Applications for the 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 are now open! Gain expertise in technical, conceptual, and governance topics during this free 2-week bootcamp from 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝟒-𝟏𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑. Don't miss out! Apply today at aisafetycamp.ch

We held an insightful presentation by Jonathan Claybrough at EPFL , shedding light on the current AI landscape - Covering concerns, risk categories, and ongoing solutions, valuable insights were shared regarding the challenges and promises of AI. youtu.be/HM3vJEEOAlk

For those on campus at EPFL, we will welcome Jonathan Claybrough for a presentation on AI's risks and promises. Feel free to join in BC 420 at 18.15 to discuss and have an apero! lu.ma/claybrough-epf…

📣 Apply now for an #NCCRCatalysis Young Talents Fellowship to conduct your funded master thesis project on sustainable chemistry & catalysis 🌱🧪🌍 within our member labs in 🇨🇭! Deadline is June 30 2023, see bit.ly/2023YoungTalen… for more info. RTs much appreciated!

Join the 48-hour interpretability in AI hackathon at EPFL on April 14! Explore the 'brains' of AI, make new connections, and create interesting research with like-minded individuals. Register now: lu.ma/alignment-jam-… #hackathon #interpretability #AIsafety #AJ7 #LAIA #EPFL

Driving precious goods in a tiny car 🚙, love from our support cat 🐈, and team selfies in Lucerne? 🤳🏼
Lots of preparation went into the #NCCRCatalysis Annual Retreat 2023! Today, we start with a day dedicated to our students and researchers! 😍

Dropout layers in a Transformer leak the phase bit (train/eval) - small example. So an LLM may be able to determine if it is being trained and if backward pass follows. Clear intuitively but good to see, and interesting to think through repercussions of
colab.research.google.com/drive/1286r553…

Our new Data Officer, Romain Graux Romain Graux, visited the Swiss National Supercomputing Center CSCS Lugano on Friday. The work being done by Pablo, Victor and their team is thoroughly impressive! We're grateful to CSCS for hosting our servers ☁️💻🚀