7/17/26: ScientistOne

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (215^th meeting, July 17, 2026)

• Announcements: 
• AI startup cohort monthly meetings hosted by MJ
• Next one is Friday Aug. 14 (2nd Friday in each month)
• Readings 
• ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• 7/17/26: We got up to "Across 75 papers..." in the abstract, aided by https://claude.ai/chat/6973902c-60d0-4988-a14c-19462a5cdb16
• We did not evaluate this reading. 
• Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness https://share.google/Zy6eLr76G1XrZUCBz 
• (6/26/26) Evaluation was 2.5 by 4 participants) On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
• Read/view something if time allows.
• The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4.
• We could combine meetings next week (July 10)...if people would like. 
• Entrepreneurship, AI & Health Learning Cohort @ Monthly from 4pm to 5pm on the second Friday (CDT). https://ualr-edu.zoom.us/j/81263776469?pwd=8KwgPE8gmi5Z2zcgnwoQu4agl9TGz9.1#success (organizer: Marla Johnson).
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?  

7/10/26: plans for MJ's monthly meetings coinciding with this one; reading

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (214^th meeting, July 10, 2026)

• Announcements: 
• AI startup cohort monthly meetings hosted by MJ
• Next one is Friday Aug. 14 (2nd Friday in each month)

• Here is the Rundown for tomorrow and subsequent virtual meetings:

  1. Team Reps - Quick Update from someone at each company about where you are in formation. What do you need? 2. free mentors and resources for you and how to access them from ARise (https://arisearkansas.org/) 3. Class at UALR and other opportunities for you including resources through the Venture Center. This includes legal, business and tech development resources. 4. Step-by-Step Overview. What to expect and how to view your company journey. Milestones. What the journey and stages look like. (1) TEAM: What to expect. What is each individual's accountability? How is leadership determined? What skills and knowledge are missing? Team members will change. How do you deal with that? Getting an advisory group. (2) When are you ready to set-up your company? Legal, business and IP tips and pitfalls. (3) Clarity and consensus on Problem, Solution, Customer Segment (Beachhead Market). Including customers BEFORE you build. (4) Money - what do you need to do to be worthy of getting funding? Can you show value? [Note, this is not step one!] Pitch competitions before seeking investment. (5) Sales, Messaging and GTM (Go to Market) Strategy. (6) Product design, development, deployment and maintenance - including customer onboarding.

  Entrepreneurship, AI & Health Learning Cohort Friday Jul 10, 2026 ⋅ 4pm – 5pm (Central Time - Chicago) Sign up here to join the monthly healthtech entrepreneurship sessions, where I will continue to connect you to people in the industry and in academic research who can help you. There are also business people with their own startup projects that you may want to join. https://forms.gle/NDu7L7EKxHJ3ZJo7A

• at 4 pm Central, we will have a virtual call for all the students who want to move forward to turn their work at the Hackathon into successful startups. We have at least one person on each team who wants to create a company. We have a few other startups from UA Little Rock joining us. We are happy to include mentors and supporters who want to stay involved going forward or who have a business idea of your own.
  
  

  Please, see the agenda for tomorrow and let me know if you want to be included OR if you would rather have a special follow up session with the students or me. 

  
  

  This is a monthly call of only one hour from 4 to 5 pm on the 2nd Friday of the month. 

  
  

  Here is the packed agenda for the call tomorrow: 

  1. Team Reps - Quick Update from someone at each company about where they are in formation. What do they need? [12 minutes - 2 minutes per company]
  

  2. Free statewide mentors and resources for startups and how to access them from ARise (https://arisearkansas.org/) [5 minutes]
  

  3. Upcoming Opps - Entrepreneurship class at UALR, Pitch n Pint & VC Coffee Connect with the Venture Center, Edge Summit and Governor’s Cup. [5 minutes]
  

  4. Future 2nd Friday Agendas. Legal, business and tech development resources coming your way. [3 minutes]

  5. Step-by-Step Entrepreneurship. What to expect and how to view your company journey. Milestones. What you need to do in the NEXT MONTH to take advantage of opportunities.[20 minutes]

  6. Q&A [15 minutes]

  Thanks everyone for your continued support of these students from all over the state! I look forward to seeing many of you virtually tomorrow.  

• Readings (no evaluation since not enough attendees)
• ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• 7/10/26: We got up to "These failures share a common root..." in the abstract, aided by https://claude.ai/chat/6973902c-60d0-4988-a14c-19462a5cdb16
• We did not evaluate this reading. 
• Some other time: Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness https://share.google/Zy6eLr76G1XrZUCBz 
• (6/26/26) Evaluation was 2.5 by 4 participants) On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
• Read/view something if time allows.
• The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4.
• We could combine meetings next week (July 10)...if people would like. 
• Entrepreneurship, AI & Health Learning Cohort @ Monthly from 4pm to 5pm on the second Friday (CDT). https://ualr-edu.zoom.us/j/81263776469?pwd=8KwgPE8gmi5Z2zcgnwoQu4agl9TGz9.1#success (organizer: Marla Johnson).
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?  

6/26/26: Readings evaluations

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (213^th meeting, June 26, 2026)

• Today: 
• Evaluate some things if time allows.
•  (Evaluation was 2.5 by 4 participants) ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
• Read/view something if time allows.
• The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4.
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?  

6/19/26: AI medical startup hackathon redux

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (212^th meeting, June 19, 2026)

• Today: 
• AI medical startup hackathon redux
• This group can be used for customer discovery, consulting suggestions / ad hoc board member suggestions
• Intros.
• If you were going to redo it what would you do differently?
• What next?
• What was the breakdown of group members and roles, technical and other/ 
• If hackers are bad, then how is a hackathon good? 
• Evaluate some things if time allows.
• ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
• Read/view something if time allows.
• The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4.
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?  

6/5/26: AI Sign Reading

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (211^th meeting, June 5, 2026)

• Announcements:
• AI Hackathon! June 12. Announcement: https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/04/ai-hackathon.html. Audience members help vote for winning teams.

• Today: 
• AI sign reading (https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-reads-unreadable-sign.html)
• Evaluate some things if time allows.
• ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
• Read/view something if time allows.
• The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4.
• Next week: No meeting, I am going to be judging projects at the AI Hackathon.
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?  

5/29/26: short demos

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (210^th meeting, May 29, 2026)

• Announcements:
• Sign up for the UALR outreach AI newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/6ACE1AA80DF773AD2540EF23F30FEDED (I did!).
• AI Hackathon! June 12. Announcement: https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/04/ai-hackathon.html
• "AI Arkansas" magazine now exists! Online at https://aiarkansas.org/. Hard copies are available too (on paper, remember that method?). 

• Today: 
• DD will demo ChatGPT's "Playground."
• MM has a student who can do a demo.
• Soon: Read or view if time allows.
• The autistic writing and AI detection article. The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4 today.
• Video got 3.82: https://x.com/Ai_Tech_tool/status/2056403236769435934/video/1?s=46: Stanford lecture
• Evaluate some things if time allows.
• ??
• AI sign reading (https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-reads-unreadable-sign.html)
• EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
• June 12: No meeting, I am going to be judging projects at the AI Hackathon.
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?  

5/22/26: Evaluations; handwriting and AI

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda, Minutes & Status (209^th meeting, May 22, 2026)

• Announcements
• Sign up for the UALR outreach AI newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/6ACE1AA80DF773AD2540EF23F30FEDED
• AI Hackathon! Announcement: https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/04/ai-hackathon.html
• "AI Arkansas" magazine now exists. Let MJ know if you want hard copies to distribute around! Put out by "AI in the Rock." Expect to see them around campus and get a copy.

• Today: 
• Evaluate some things. 
• https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html got a 3 today.
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html got a 2 2/3 today.
• The autistic writing and AI detection article got a 4 today.
• video got 3.82. 
• AI generated handwriting (https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/03/can-ai-draw-by-hand.html) 
• Soon: AI sign reading (https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-reads-unreadable-sign.html) 
• Next time: DD will demo ChatGPT's "Playground."
• MM has a student who can do a demo next week, along with DD's demo. 
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?) 
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?