BLISS Berlin – Berlin Learning &
Intelligent Systems Society
BLISS is the AI organisation in Berlin that connects like-minded individuals who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning.
Upcoming Events
Jonas Geiping - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
About
Jonas Geiping is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, where he leads the Safety- & Efficiency-Aligned Learning group. Before moving to Tübingen, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his PhD from the University of Siegen.
Ryan Greenblatt, Buck Shlegeris, Kshitij Sachan, Fabien Roger
The paper that started the AI control agenda: instead of making a powerful model trustworthy, it asks how to use it safely even if it deliberately tries to cause harm. In a coding testbed, a red team makes GPT-4 sneak backdoors into its solutions, while protocols using the weaker but trusted GPT-3.5 and limited human review try to catch them. We start with a short walkthrough of the setup and the main safety protocols, then open the floor for discussion. Reading the abstract, introduction and discussion is enough to join in.
Location: MAR 0.015, TU Berlin (Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin)
Time: Every Monday, 6:45pm
This winter semester we pick a new paper every week, so the papers for upcoming sessions are announced on short notice. Check back here for the latest paper.
Location: MAR 0.015, TU Berlin (Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin)
Time: Every Monday, 6:45pm
Jonathan Richard Schwarz - Imperial College London
About
Jonathan Richard Schwarz is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, working on topics from continual and meta-learning to sparsity.
This winter semester we pick a new paper every week, so the papers for upcoming sessions are announced on short notice. Check back here for the latest paper.
Location: MAR 0.015, TU Berlin (Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin)
Time: Every Monday, 6:45pm
About Us
Founded in 2022, our student initiative Berlin Learning & Intelligent Systems Society (BLISS) aims to create a community of students and young professionals
excited about machine learning and AI. Our vision is to provide an environment
to deeply engage with AI research while fostering connections to leading
researchers and industry professionals.
We host many awesome events, including a speaker series, reading groups,
hackathons and social events. We've always been independent from companies
and universities and became a registered non-profit organization in 2022.
You are cordially invited to our events!
Team
Westerhoff
Loos
Tschörner
Hoang
Hufe
Neuhäuser
Beese
Pinetzki
Goelbasi
Erdem Erdogan
Sherif
Kojonazarov
Zukowska
Kosiarski
Ramadan
Ndjiki-Nya
Pfeiffer
Sztukiewicz
Samjatin
Mavaddat
Sahin
Özdemir
Schulte
Deckard
Dickson
Thakkar
Xie
ÇOLAK
Chapagain
Hübner
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Partners
We frequently cooperate with our partners granting them access to a large community of AI talents while using the given resources to increase the quality of our events.
