Keynote Speech 1: Sunday 09:00-10:00, December 17th, 2023

Abstract

Limitless Human Connection by Federated LLMs

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed a paradigm shift towards a comprehensive, human-centered approach aimed at elevating communication and productivity. This presentation delves into recent breakthroughs of large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta that have redefined how federating multiple LLMs can enhance limitless human connection and productivity.

Biography

Xuedong (XD) Huang is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zoom. Prior to Zoom, he was at Microsoft where he served as Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow. His career is illustrious in the AI space: he founded Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993, led Microsoft's AI teams to achieve several of the industry's first human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision, is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Xuedong received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Edinburgh, his MS in CS from Tsinghua University, and BS in CS from Hunan University.