6/7/24: Evaluate more potential readings

 

Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes

116th meeting, June 7, 2024

• Schedule:

• Updates, news, or comments?
• Current activity: Evaluate some other readings/viewings for more in-depth examination later.
1. Chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4 starting from "Note that the first attention layer in a decoder block pays attention to" 
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)
4. Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.We viewed the first two segments. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.
5. LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract.
6. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU (suggested by BL). We got up to time 4:25. 5/24/24 vote to finish it was 3 5.234/6. 
   
7. https://ai-challenges.nist.gov/genai. 6/7/24 vote was 3 2/7. We ended at "fake or misleading information."
8. We've been reading "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments ..." starting at "2.3 Music" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). We got up to "We then asked the model to describe the tune in musical terms." 5/24/24 vote to read more of the paper was 3 1/5.
9. https://www.nist.gov/ai-test-evaluation-validation-and-verification-tevv. We read up to "NIST aims to expand these efforts, driving AI research and enabling progress by:". 6/7/24 vote was 3 1.75/8.
   

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• Anything else?
  
• Reading

• Want to read another article or view another video? Let me know and I'll put it on the list below and/or we can time share across more than one article per meeting!