Privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue systems – Participation in a technological challenge
Funds teams that build a defence-ready human-AI dialogue system and enter it into a shared, independently judged evaluation challenge.
Privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue systems – Participation in a technological challenge is a European Defence Fund (EDF) grant that funds teams to build a privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue system — a chatbot or large-language-model-based system — for military use, able to explain its answers, protect classified information, keep learning from users, and work in writing, by voice, and in every…
This topic funds teams that build a privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue system — a chatbot or large-language-model-based system — for military use, able to explain its answers, protect classified information, keep learning from users, and work in writing, by voice, and in every EU official language. Entrants must submit their system to the shared testing environment run under the companion organiser topic.
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