Harmony News
We have a few more issues that have been added to the issue trackers. If you are new and would like to make a pull request in either the Python or R libraries feel free to pick these up - they should be quite small. Easy issues in Python library We would like to expose the “between instrument matches” and the “negation” switches in the Python library and then from the API side.
Harmony on DOXA AI: Train your own Large Language Model and win up to £500 in vouchers! Join a competition to train a Large Language Model for mental health data. You don’t need to have trained a Large Language Model before. We would like to improve Harmony’s matching algorithm. Sometimes, Harmony mistakenly thinks that sentences are similar when a psychologist would consider them dissimilar, or vice versa. We have evaluated Harmony’s performance in this blog post.
Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter (online event) On 22 November, we will present Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter’s event on Application of Generative AI and LLMs. Thomas Wood will demonstrate Harmony and how it uses Gen AI. The event will be livestreamed. ⏲️ 25 minutes talk + 10 minutes Q&A 📅 Date: November 22nd 2024, 6:15 pm 📝 RSVP See also our past events 22 November 2024: Harmony at Women In Data™️ London Chapter 30 October 2024: Onboarding webinar for DOXA AI competition 8 October 2024: Harmony: a free online tool using LLMs for research in psychology and social sciences at AI|DL London 11 and 12 September 2024: Harmony at MethodsCon Futures in Manchester 2 July 2024: Harmony: NLP and generative models for psychology research at Pydata London 3 June 2024: Harmony Hackathon at UCL 5 May 2024: Harmony: A global platform for harmonisation, translation and cooperation in mental health at Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Initiative seminar series.
How are research funders reacting to the AI governance vacuum? A recent article by Sense about Science, a leading independent charity that promotes the public interest in sound science and evidence, highlights the growing need for responsible AI governance in research. The article, titled Research funders tackle AI governance vacuum with pragmatic guidance, discusses the alarming gap between the rapid development and adoption of AI tools, and the lack of clear frameworks for their safe and ethical use.
Tech Talk at the AI|DL AI Meetup (London) Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Enterprise Thomas Wood presents the Harmony project at the 19th AI and Deep Learning for Enterprise meetup on 8 October 2024. In case you missed the talk about Harmony on Tuesday at Civo Tech Junction with AI and Deep Learning for Enterprise sponsored by Daemon, you can now watch the recording of the live stream on AI|DL’s channel.
MethodsCon in Manchester We will be at MethodsCon: Futures in Manchester, run by the National Centre for Research Methods on 11 and 12 September 2024 to present Harmony, the NLP and AI tool we have been developing for researchers in social science, funded by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council. The events take place at The Edwardian Manchester. Methods Showcase – 11th September The first event is a workshop on 11 September: