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.