NODE+CODE #22.2 – How to build a bot from scratch
Co-coding session with Aurelie Herbelot
For NODE+CODE Meetup #22.2, Aurelie Herbelot is bringing us our new display mascot: an empty, and therefore still rather dumb, chatbot.
Aurelie Herbelot is a computational linguist specializing in very small natural language processing models, because she believes that future technologies should neither destroy the environment nor be controlled by a few overpowering companies, but should be accessible to everyone.
[DE] Zum NODE+CODE Meetup #22.2 bringt uns Aurelie Herbelot unser neues display-Maskottchen mit: einen leeren, also noch ziemlich dummen Chatbot. Aurelie Herbelot ist Computerlinguistin und spezialisiert auf sehr kleine Natural Language Processing Modelle, weil sie der Überzeugung ist dass Zukunftstechnologien weder die Umwelt zerstören noch von wenigen, übermächtigen Unternehmen beherrscht, sondern für alle zugänglich sein sollten.
For display, Aurelie is bringing us a particularly small chatbot, a little bot that we will bring to life together: we will name it and decide collectively what data we want to train it with. We will feed it the very first data, watch it train, and teach it to speak for the first time. We will look at what the little bot remembers when we feed it our language and our topics, and why that is the case.
Come by and bring the little bot to life with us!
(and, as always, hang out with us and take a nice, warm soup!)
[DE] Für das display Soft Opening übergibt uns Aurelie einen besonders kleinen Chatbot, ein Botchen, das wir gemeinsam zum Leben erwecken: wir werden es taufen, und im Kollektiv entscheiden mit welchen Daten wir es trainieren wollen. Wir werden es mit den allerersten Daten füttern, ihm beim Trainieren zuschauen und so das Sprechen beibringen. Wir schauen uns an, woran sich das Botchen erinnert, wenn wir es mit unserer Sprache und unseren Themen füttern, und warum das so ist.
Kommt vorbei und erweckt mit uns das Botchen zum Leben!
As #22.1, NODE+CODE #22.2 is taking place as part of the soft opening week of display and the nationwide ‘Netzpolitik & Demokratie’ campaign days. display is the new space for digital practice in the centre of Frankfurt and a cooperation project between us, NODE Forum for Digital Arts, and ‘Stabstelle Digitalisierung’, the Digitalisation Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
Program
Join us at display for the whole week of our Soft Opening (see here for more info)—on Wednesday we will have NODE+CODE #22.1 as an Interactive Keynote with Navid Navab and lots of delicious hot soup!
Feel free to just come by, everybody is welcome 🙂
Contributors
And what else will happen?
With this meetup season we will dive into the community – and, of course, we will again serve drinks and a yummy soup for free!
Just come by or RSVP (for better planning) here!
What is NODE+CODE?
Since 2014, the meetup invites creatives, designers, artists, coders and anyone else interested to a series of events with changing locations and thematic focuses – all related to working with code in design and the arts. We want to build a community of people interested in the creative and critical application of technology in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main.
Open Call
Be part of it and share your projects, challenges and questions with the community in one of our next meetups:
Propose your contribution! [DE/EN]
Funding
The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs.
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