12/15/23: Reading and Discussion

 

Machine Learning Study Group

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 Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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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.