2/25/22: Started on our first videos

 Agenda & minutes:

• Welcome to the 7th meeting.
• (No report on AI study group at Arkansas State U. this week)
• Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
• Organizational reminders
• This agenda and minutes is on a blog, https://AIntwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com. 
• This meeting will be automatically ended by Zoom after 40 min.
• Demo: The blog has been reconfigured to permit anonymous and semi-anonymous comments. Now you can discuss things after the meetings even more freely!
• Future meetings:
• Next meeting: Any suggestions or requests? 
• Readings, viewings, etc.: 
• "Attention is all you need," https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf. Attention is all you need, A Vaswani, N Shazeer, N Parmar… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc … Cited by 35,980 
• We finished through 2 paragraphs of section 2, so next time we read some we can start with section 2.
• Let's read a paragraph or two to keep up the momentum.
• Featured resource: Short and long videos - 
• Summary & testing of a longer video, by VW (5 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiDH9DZWi5Y. We watched it.
• The longer video (44 min. but can skip last 10 minutes about negative result): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfnjQIhQzME&authuser=1. We watched up to time 7:44 but did not yet discuss the slide that finished being presented at that point.
• Future reading possibilities:
• MM would like to step us through some of the resources available from NVIDIA.
• MM suggests explainable AI as a reading/discussion topic.
• MM suggests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8&ab_channel=TheA.I.Hacker-MichaelPhi as a transformer video.
• 2021 Turing Award lecture paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250
• Anticipative Video Transformer, https://facebookresearch.github.io/AVT/?fbclid=IwAR1RurSM33v8baN10H9JCX_dvVNtscydsLupaB8NMgKOmNIPjIwD3XO2vOA.
• "Deep learning—a first meta-survey of selected reviews across scientific disciplines, their commonalities, challenges and research impact," https://peerj.com/articles/cs-773.
• We read the abstract. It is not clear whether we should continue reading material from it. Any opinions/thoughts/comments?
• Some quantum computing references we could read as needed (from VW):
• - Quantum crossing threshold (free): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04273-w
• - Crossing threshold in silicon: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04182-y
• - Three-qubit donor processor in Si: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04292-7