4/28/23: Updates; evaluations of potential readings

   Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 62nd meeting, April 28, 2023.
• Status updates/news/inputs/comments
• Student and project updates
• PT is working on different window sizes for the LSTM algorithm. Will give us an update on preliminary results.
  
• Superimposed text project (VK). Paper submitted to FTC 2023 on VQA on images with superimposed text. Any updates? We should hear back about the paper some time in mid-May.
  
• DD has finished the tutorial.
• Any other updates/news/inputs or comments?
  

• We read https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 about GPT-4 up to the section "Limitations."
• Next time we can evaluate https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter0/1?fw=tf. Evaluation was 4 1/5 to continue reading it, which would involve setting up environments since reading it means working through it like a lab.
  
• https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter7/3?fw=tf. Evaluation was 4.0 to read more of this article.
• 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.
  
• 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.