NDC Conferences YouTube · January 28, 2026

Keynote: Can you trust your (large language) model? - Jodie Burchell - NDC AI 2025

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NDC AI 2025 keynote on whether machine-learning and LLM outputs can be trusted, and why black-box model behavior makes performance assessment and validation difficult.

My takeaway: Keynote: Can you trust your (large language) model? - Jodie Burchell - NDC AI 2025 is a model-evaluation signal. The practical read is to connect model trust claims to validation methods, error analysis, and evidence that holds up when behavior is hard to inspect directly.
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