The online kickoff event took place on Wednesday, April 28th and marked the beginning of the BigScience one-year long research workshop on very large language models. The event was recorded and is available on YouTube. This is a good place to start if you'd like to know more about the project, the working groups and how to get involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMBcm0TByF4
At a glance
- Officially introduced and started the workshop and the collaboration tools
- Presented the first working groups and what can be done to join and help as well as propose additional working groups
- Answered questions, explained the (new) tools and how to participate
Two sessions
The event had two identical 2h sessions in different timezones.
- Session 1: 10-12am Paris, 4-6pm Beijing, 11am-1pm Moscow, 4-6 am NYC, 1-3am SF
- Session 2: 1-3pm NYC, 10am-12pm SF, 7-9pm Paris, 8-10pm Moscow, 1-3am Beijing
Live streams
- Live-streams on Youtube and Tencent Meeting (same content livestreamed on all channels):
- Questions on dory.app - answered on the forumWritten anonymous questions, upvote questions to surface most relevant