7/19/24: Viewing and discussion

 

Machine Learning Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:40 p.m. Central Time. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be removed from the invite list as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

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

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Agenda & Minutes

121st meeting, July 19, 2024

 

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Next week: IS presentation on story-telling production using AI agents.
  
• Current activity: Here are the latest readings and viewings.
• Last time we finished Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.
• Chapter 6 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc and we  started on that this time. We got up to time 11:00 and can start there next time we view it.
  
• 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. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.
  

• Possible KO presentation on 8/9/24.