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 V!)
  

                             

• 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.