7/28/23: TE defense

  Machine Learning Study Group

Welcome! We start at 4:00, and go for 40 minutes. New members are always welcome and anyone can join. You may attend any or all sessions. Feel free to ask to be removed from the invite list at any time, as we have no wish to send unneeded emails which we all certainly get too many of.

 

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 73rd meeting, July 28, 2023.
• MSIS defense (TE)
• Title: A Customer Service Chatbot Using Python and Machine Learning
• Abstract: The report shows that with the most recent advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language processing using generative-pretrained transformers, we can develop robust AI applications to assist customer service departments with question answer systems. This paper takes look at some of the related work that has been done in the question answer task using OpenAIs APIs. This report also examines how I was able to create an AI question answer application using my own documents that generated correct answers to my questions about those documents. I used two different approaches to create the question answer system. One was to use just the OpenAI APIs. The other was to use the LangChain framework and libraries. Both applications did answer my questions correctly. LangChain used less code with a higher learning curve. OpenAI APIs used more code with more detailed answer results.
• Congratulations! It's a pass.
  

• Here are some other things we could choose to read from in the future.
  
• 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.
• 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.

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• 6/30/23: We finished https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 about GPT-4!
• 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.