Beyond Words: How Large Language Models like Gemini are Reshaping our World

Explore the groundbreaking advancements in large language models and their transformative impact. Discover how Gemini is enhancing language capabilities for billions of users and reshaping the future of technology.

Speakers:

Slav Petrov

Google DeepMind

Slav Petrov

Slav Petrov is Vice President, Research at Google DeepMind. He is a co-lead on Gemini, Google's large models effort. His work has been recognized with multiple Best Paper Awards (ACL'11, NAACL'12, ACL'16, 10-year Test-of-Time Award at ACL'23) and provides better language capabilities to billions of users in a variety of Google products spanning Web Search, Assistant, Ads, Translate & Cloud. Slav is the recipient of the 2014 John Atanasoff Award by the President of Bulgaria and a World Champion at RoboCup 2004. For many years, Slav taught Statistical Natural Language Processing at New York University. He holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.

Andras Orban

Google Gemini

Andras Orban

Andras Orban is an Engineering Director at Google Switzerland, leading the Safety, Factuality, Multimodality, and RLHF teams on the Gemini App. Prior to Gemini, he spent six years as an engineering lead on the Google Assistant NLP team. Before that, he was a core engineer on the Google Search Ranking team. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics, which he received in 2004 from the Budapest University of Technology. He has been awarded the Pro Scientia Gold Medal and the Fellowship of the Republic.