Machine Learning Study Group
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Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 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
Agenda & Minutes (131st meeting, Sept. 27, 2024)
- Today
- Guest presentation: Areesa Ashfaq, MS in Artificial Intelligence (Air University, Islamabad), will discuss her thesis work on “Visual Question Answering Based on Object Detection and Recognition.”
- Announcements, updates, questions, etc.
- Next week: AB will give a informal dry run of his proposal.
- YP may be willing to provide an informal talk on AI ethics, company products and activities, and other topics.
- Here are the latest readings and viewings
- We can work on chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
- Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
- Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
- Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
- Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
- 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.
