4/14/23: Student updates; evaluate potential readings

 

 

 Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 60th meeting, April 14, 2023.
• Status updates/news/inputs/comments
• Student and project updates
• EG introduced us to Rapids.AI. It is much faster than its competitors.
  
• PT is working on predicting spacecraft lifetimes using LSTMs to digest the data and make predictions. He is incorporating nominal variables (category bins) into the model. Example: destination, which could be Mars, or Saturn, or Jupiter, etc., which does not have a continuous value.
• K is working on installing Rapids.AI.
  
•  Superimposed text project (VK). Paper underway on VQA on images with superimposed text.
  
• Any other updates/news/inputs or comments?
  

• In the article "ChatGPT Strategy" by C. Goodall, we got through item 2 in the section "10 WAYS TEACHERS CAN USE CHAT GPT TO REDUCE WORKLOAD." We can start from there. Evaluation was 3.0 to keep reading it.
  
• We read https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 about GPT-4 up to the section "Steerability" but got cut off before we could evaluate it. So we will evaluate it next time.
• MC suggested: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). We read the abstract to decide whether to read the article. The group's evaluation was 3 6/7 out of 5 to read it.
  
• Here are some other things we could choose to read from in the future from as time allows.
  
• ChatGPT related readings, video viewings, etc.
  

• 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

• 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. 
• 2/17/23; "Deep Learning for AI" by Bengio, LeCun and Hinton, the Turing Award Lecture paper for 2018, published in CACM, 2021, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250.
  
• 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.