2/3/23: VW's list of AI tools, etc.

 

   Machine Learning Study Group

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 50th meeting, Feb. 3, 2023.
• Updates/news/inputs/comments
• We start at 4:00 (or as soon as the weekly seminar is over and people have logged in). Zoom automatically ends the meeting after 40 minutes.
  
• New members welcome. Anyone can join.
  
• You are welcome to attend any or all sessions. Also feel free to ask to be removed from the invite list at any time, as I have no wish to send unneeded emails which we all certainly get too much of.
  

• We will spend half the time on discussing material from articles about ChatGPT, and half continuing with the Turing Award paper we were discussing earlier:
  
• ChatGPT related readings, video viewings, etc.
  

• VW presented his big list of tool:

                               

                                Next time we will continue with the next reading, below.

• ChatGPT: What Is It & How Can You Use It? (searchenginejournal.com). We already read and discussed up to "The moderators at the coding Q&A website Stack Overflow ..." on 1/6/23.
• ChatGPT Is a Game-Changer. Here’s How to Use it in Your Writing. We already discussed more or less up to "2. Headline generation" on 12/30/22.
  
• ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says - CNET. We already discussed up to "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot" on 12/30/22. 
• 20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | by Mark Schaefer | Dec, 2022 | Medium  
• Large Language Models: A New Moore's Law? (huggingface.co)
• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT - The New York Times
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
• Short video: ChatGPT in medicine

• Turing Award lecture paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250. We got up to "From homogeneous layers to groups of neurons that represent entities." on p. 64 and will start from there next time.

 The meeting ended here.

• At some point we can discuss and vote on other sources. See the list on the page of sources. Also Youtube is full of videos about neural nets, transformers, etc.
  

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI (Harvard Business Review). Finished 1/27/23.
• 12/16/22: We demoed ChatGPT.
• 11/4/22: We viewed and discussed a transformers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQlZhbC5ps first. This seemed to be one of the better videos of the many out there.
• Transformers From Scratch," https://e2eml.school/transformers.html. Finished on 10/28/22.
• The Narrated Transformer Language Model, Jay Alammar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM, finished 7/22/22.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ. Finished 8/26/22.
  
• We also finished other things from before this list of finished sources was created to keep a record of them.

 

 

 

1/27/23: Half ChatGPT etc., and half the Turing Award lecture paper

 

  Machine Learning Study Group

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 49th meeting, Jan. 27, 2023.
• Updates/news/inputs/comments
• We start at 4:00 (or as soon as the weekly seminar is over and people have logged in). Zoom automatically ends the meeting after 40 minutes.
  
• New members welcome. Anyone can join.
  
• You are welcome to attend just the ChatGPT sessions (which will reach a natural end, of course), or request to be added to the calendar invite list for other future sessions as well. Also feel free to ask to be removed from the invite list at any time, as I have no wish to send unneeded emails which we already get too much of.
  

• We will spend half the time on discussing material from articles about ChatGPT, and half continuing with the Turing Award paper we were discussing earlier:
  
• ChatGPT related readings, video viewings, etc.
  

• A big list of tools (thanks Van!)
  

                             

• ChatGPT: What Is It & How Can You Use It? (searchenginejournal.com). We already read and discussed up to "The moderators at the coding Q&A website Stack Overflow ..." on 1/6/23.
• ChatGPT Is a Game-Changer. Here’s How to Use it in Your Writing. We already discussed more or less up to "2. Headline generation" on 12/30/22.
  
• ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says - CNET. We already discussed up to "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot" on 12/30/22. 
• 20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | by Mark Schaefer | Dec, 2022 | Medium  
• Large Language Models: A New Moore's Law? (huggingface.co)
• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT - The New York Times
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
• Short video: ChatGPT in medicine

• Turing Award lecture paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250. We got up to "Comparing human learning ..." on p. 64 and will start from there next time.

 The meeting ended here.

• At some point we can discuss and vote on other sources. See the list on the page of sources. Also Youtube is full of videos about neural nets, transformers, etc.
  

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI (Harvard Business Review). Finished 1/27/23.
• 12/16/22: We demoed ChatGPT.
• 11/4/22: We viewed and discussed a transformers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQlZhbC5ps first. This seemed to be one of the better videos of the many out there.
• Transformers From Scratch," https://e2eml.school/transformers.html. Finished on 10/28/22.
• The Narrated Transformer Language Model, Jay Alammar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM, finished 7/22/22.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ. Finished 8/26/22.
  
• We also finished other things from before this list of finished sources was created to keep a record of them.

 

 

 

1/20/23: ChatGPT - week 4 - example transcripts

 

  Machine Learning Study Group

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 48th meeting, Jan. 20, 2023.
• Updates/news/inputs/comments
• We start at 4:00 (or as soon as the weekly seminar is over and people have logged in). Zoom automatically ends the meeting after 40 minutes.
  
• New members welcome. Anyone can join.
  
• You are welcome to attend just the ChatGPT sessions (which will reach a natural end, of course), or request to be added to the calendar invite list for other future sessions as well. Also feel free to ask to be removed from the invite list at any time, as I have no wish to send unneeded emails which we already get too much of.
  
• Discuss actual ChatGPT outputs contributed by some of us. It might be possible to run ChatGPT live as well if it is running when we want to use it
  
• VW -  screenshot, etc.
  
• MM - literary question

The meeting ended here. 

• DB - check out https://ifsc2200ethics.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/ada/ which we did not discuss
  
• Live: https://chat.openai.com/auth/login (possibility: "ChatGPT is at capacity right now"), so try it if you like.
  
• Next week we will spend half the time on discussing material from articles about ChatGPT, and half continuing with the Turing Award paper we were discussing earlier:
  
• ChatGPT readings, video viewings, etc.
  

• ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI (Harvard Business Review). We already read and discussed up to "A final reason why this will be transformative:"
• ChatGPT: What Is It & How Can You Use It? (searchenginejournal.com). We already read and discussed up to "The moderators at the coding Q&A website Stack Overflow ..." on 1/6/23.
• ChatGPT Is a Game-Changer. Here’s How to Use it in Your Writing. We already discussed more or less up to "2. Headline generation" on 12/30/22.
  
• ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says - CNET. We already discussed up to "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot" on 12/30/22. 
• 20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | by Mark Schaefer | Dec, 2022 | Medium  
• Large Language Models: A New Moore's Law? (huggingface.co)
• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT - The New York Times
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
• Short video: ChatGPT in medicine

• Turing Award lecture paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250. We got up to "Variational auto-encoders" on p. 63 and will start from there at a future meeting.

• At some point we can discuss and vote on other sources. See the list on the page of sources. Also Youtube is full of videos about neural nets, transformers, etc.
  

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• 12/16/22: We demoed ChatGPT.
• 11/4/22: We viewed and discussed a transformers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQlZhbC5ps first. This seemed to be one of the better videos of the many out there.
• Transformers From Scratch," https://e2eml.school/transformers.html. Finished on 10/28/22.
• The Narrated Transformer Language Model, Jay Alammar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM, finished 7/22/22.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ. Finished 8/26/22.
  
• We also finished other things from before this list of finished sources was created to keep a record of them.

 

1/13/23: ChatGPT discussion week #3

 

 Machine Learning Study Group

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 47th meeting, Jan. 13, 2023.
• Updates/news/inputs/comments
• We start at 4:00 (or as soon as the weekly seminar is over and people have logged in). Zoom automatically ends the meeting after 40 minutes.
  
• New members welcome. Anyone can join.
  
• We have some guests today. You are welcome to request weekly calendar invites, or to just participate today.
• We discussed some options for next week: 
• Discuss actual ChatGPT outputs contributed by us.
  
• Discuss positive uses of ChatGPT for our students. Put out the word and see if others want to join in.
  
• Discuss negative uses of ChatGPT for our students. Put out the word and see if others want to join in.
• Readings, viewings, etc. 
• Today (and maybe next time, etc., as desired): We will discuss ChatGPT by reading and talking about one or more of the following:

• ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI (Harvard Business Review). We read up to "A final reason why this will be transformative:"
• ChatGPT: What Is It & How Can You Use It? (searchenginejournal.com). We read and discussed up to "The moderators at the coding Q&A website Stack Overflow ..." on 1/6/23.
• ChatGPT Is a Game-Changer. Here’s How to Use it in Your Writing. We already discussed more or less up to "2. Headline generation" on 12/30/22.
  
• ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says - CNET. We already discussed up to "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot" on 12/30/22. 
• 20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | by Mark Schaefer | Dec, 2022 | Medium  
• Large Language Models: A New Moore's Law? (huggingface.co)
• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT - The New York Times
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
• Short video: ChatGPT in medicine

• We have been reading the Turing Award lecture paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250. We got up to "Variational auto-encoders" on p. 63 and will start from there at a future meeting.

• At some point we can discuss and vote on other sources. See the list on the page of sources. Also Youtube is full of videos about neural nets, transformers, etc.
  

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• 12/16/22: We demoed ChatGPT.
• 11/4/22: We viewed and discussed a transformers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQlZhbC5ps first. This seemed to be one of the better videos of the many out there.
• Transformers From Scratch," https://e2eml.school/transformers.html. Finished on 10/28/22.
• The Narrated Transformer Language Model, Jay Alammar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM, finished 7/22/22.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ. Finished 8/26/22.
  
• We also finished other things from before this list of finished sources was created to keep a record of them.

 

1/6/23: ChatGPT Discussion - Everyone Welcome

 

Machine Learning Study Group

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 46th meeting, Jan. 6, 2023.
• Updates/news/inputs/comments
• We start at 4:00 (or as soon as the weekly seminar is over and people have logged in). Zoom automatically ends the meeting after 40 minutes.
  
• New members welcome. Anyone can join.
  
• We have some guests today. You are welcome to request weekly calendar invites, or to just participate today.
  
• Readings, viewings, etc. 
• Today (and maybe next time, etc., as desired): We will discuss ChatGPT by reading and talking about one or more of the following:

• ChatGPT: What Is It & How Can You Use It? (searchenginejournal.com). We read and discussed up to "The moderators at the coding Q&A website Stack Overflow ..." on 1/6/23.
  
• ChatGPT Is a Game-Changer. Here’s How to Use it in Your Writing. We already discussed more or less up to "2. Headline generation" on 12/30/22.
  
• ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says - CNET. We already discussed up to "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot" on 12/30/22.
• 7 Interesting Experiments with ChatGPT
• ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI (Harvard Business Review)
• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT - The New York Times
• ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated - Scientific American
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
• NYT article 
• Short video: ChatGPT in medicine

• We have been reading the Turing Award lecture paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250. We got up to "Variational auto-encoders" on p. 63 and will start from there at a future meeting.

• At some point we can discuss and vote on other sources. See the list on the page of sources. Also Youtube is full of videos about neural nets, transformers, etc.
  

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• 12/16/22: We demoed ChatGPT.
• 11/4/22: We viewed and discussed a transformers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQlZhbC5ps first. This seemed to be one of the better videos of the many out there.
• Transformers From Scratch," https://e2eml.school/transformers.html. Finished on 10/28/22.
• The Narrated Transformer Language Model, Jay Alammar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM, finished 7/22/22.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ. Finished 8/26/22.
  
• We also finished other things from before this list of finished sources was created to keep a record of them.