Connected Algeria Conference hosted among many excellent guests two Slovenian experts, i.e. Luka Čehovin Zajc, assistant professor at the Visual Cognitive Systems Lab at Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
Panel discussion AI- From LLM to SLM
One of the panellists was the Slovenian expert Luka Čehovin Zajc, assistant professor at Visual Cognitive Systems Lab at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. At the faculty, he is involved in Multimedia Systems and Robotics, and Computer Perception courses. His research interests are computer vision, machine learning, remote sensing, and human-computer interaction. He is a co-organizer of the VOT Challenge, where experts work on systematic visual tracker evaluation.
During the panel on AI, LLMs, and SLMs Luka emphasized which role SLMs can have for national projects and startups, but warned about the need to constrain their objective to a narrow domain. “During the panel, we have discussed the comparison of different language models and the role of a mixture of experts and agent systems.”
It was a thought-provoking panel exploring the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, from Large Language Models (LLM) to Small Language Models (SLM).
Workshop on cybersecurity and digital sovereignty
Luka also participated as an expert in AI at a Workshop on cybersecurity and digital sovereignty. He emphasized the role the data has in training AI models and the importance of national compute centres as a strategic resource for countries and their SME ecosystem. Luka also spoke about the novel risk of AI code generation on cybersecurity of services as well as the opportunities of AI assisted security in computer systems and the real world.
