12/29/23: Reading (on GPT-4)

 Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

94th Meeting, Dec. 29, 2023

• Today
• Announcements, questions, etc.?

• Readings: We are reading
  
• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712).
• We examined Figures 1.1 and 1.2. Next is to continue with the partial paragraph at the bottom of p. 4.
• We had evaluated chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4 and gave it a 4 1/6 to read, so that is an option for future discussion.
  

 

12/15/23: Reading and Discussion

 

Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

93rd Meeting, Dec. 15, 2023

• Today
• Announcements, questions, etc.?
• Discussion of the read.ai tool
• Since we finished the HuggingFace  chapter 1, part 3 of https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/3?fw=tf including the associated collab exercises, we evaluated chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4 and gave it a 4 1/6 to read.
  

• Readings: We are reading
  
• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). 
• We have read through "makes us comfortable with saying that GPT-4 is a significant step towards AGI." on p. 4. Next is to examine Figures 1.1 and 1.2, then to continue with the partial par. at the bottom of p. 4.

 

12/8/23: Lab day #2 (finish the HuggingFace chapter)

Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

92nd Meeting, Dec. 8, 2023

• Schedule
• Today: HuggingFace lab for "week" 3 of the 3 part cycle.

• Current activities
• Announcements, questions, etc.?
  
• Lab exercises:
  
• We are continuing with the HuggingFace lab program. We finished chapter 1, part 3 of https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/3?fw=tf including the associated collab exercises.

The meeting ended here.

• Readings: We are reading
  
• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). 
• Today we got through "makes us comfortable with saying that GPT-4 is a significant step towards AGI." on p. 4. Next is to examine Figures 1.1 and 1.2, then to continue with the partial par. at the bottom of p. 4.

 

12/1/23: Lab day

 

Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

91st Meeting, Dec. 1, 2023

• Schedule
• Today: HuggingFace lab for "week" 2 of the 3 part cycle.

• Current activities
• Announcements, questions, etc.?
  
• Lab exercises:
  
• We are continuing with the HuggingFace lab program. We did summarization today and will proceed from there next time.
  
• See chapter 1, part 3, https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/3?fw=tf. 

The meeting ended here.

• Readings: We are reading
  
• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). 
• Today we got through "makes us comfortable with saying that GPT-4 is a significant step towards AGI." on p. 4. Next is to examine Figures 1.1 and 1.2, then to continue with the partial par. at the bottom of p. 4.