BigScience is a one-year long research workshop on large multilingual datasets and large language models. It fosters discussions and reflections around the research questions surrounding large language models (capabilities, limitations, potential improvements, bias, ethics, environmental impact) as well as the challenges around creating and sharing such models and datasets for research purposes and among the research community. For the NeurIPS 2021 BigSience Social we are looking forward to:

Technical talks and paper presentations by BigScience working group chairs Invited talks & interdisciplinary discussions on large language models A carbon footprint tutorial A social space for open discussions