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Join us on Wednesday, October 1st, at 5 pm (CEST)<\/strong> for the online event \u201cMultimodal LLMs: AI that Can Read, Look, Listen, and Speak <\/em><\/strong>\u201d on the MS Teams<\/strong> platform.<\/p>\n

This talk is an accessible, exploratory tour of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), AI systems that can understand and generate across text, images, audio, video, and more.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll unpack what \u201cmultimodal\u201d really means, how these models differ from text-only LLMs, and why this shift represents a new paradigm in AI. Through intuitive examples and live-style walkthroughs (no coding or prior expertise required), you\u2019ll see how MLLMs can describe images, read charts and documents, follow spoken prompts, and connect ideas across different kinds of media.<\/p>\n

The goal is awareness and curiosity: to give you a clear mental model of what\u2019s now possible, common terms you\u2019ll encounter, and a sense of where the field is heading, so you can recognize and engage with this emerging wave of AI.<\/p>\n

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Speaker:<\/p>\n

Pierfrancesco Melucci<\/a> <\/strong>| Data Scientist and Research Assistant at Sony Computer Science Laboratories<\/p>\n

Moderator:<\/p>\n

Claudio Sartori | <\/strong>Director of the Master in Data Science and Business Analytics<\/p>\n

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The event will be held in English.<\/p>\n

To participate, please fill out the registration form.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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