10/4/24: General discussion

 Machine Learning Study Group

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

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Agenda & Minutes  (132^nd meeting, Oct. 4, 2024)

 

• Today
• video viewing/discussion. Start Chapter 5 video.
  
• Announcements, updates, questions, etc.
• From an email: "The Provost has a team participating in AAC&U's AI Institute on AI Pedagogy in the Curriculum this year (see links below).  I. U. is the representative from DCSTEM. The Provost's office would also like each college to form an ad hoc Committee on AI Pedagogy in the Curriculum that would meet ~monthly with our AI Institute representative."
• VW, RM are testing ChatGPT o1. They are impressed.
• RM informally explained her project. 
• EG would like to host a meeting for demoing and/or a workshop soon. 
  
• The meeting was composed of general discussion on several topics.
• DD suggests as a reading, "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior", https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442v1.
• Next week: AB will practice his PhD proposal defense.
  

• ChatGPT transcript, 9/28/24:

   

  Me: make an image to accompany the text of of a powerpoint slide. The image should contain a prominently colored kidney-like object in the center, with various items in the remaining portion relating to the content of the slide. The content or text of the slide is as follows: "Project future efficacy of treatment for kidney/renal cancer. Quantify rate of improvement in treatment for different subtypes. Revise survival time figures that are over-weighted with old data. Older data underestimates average survival times. More optimism is justified! Physicians, patients, public health statistics, even insurance companies all are stakeholders."

  
  

  ChatGPT:

  

  Here's the image with a central kidney-like shape surrounded by symbols representing your slide, conveying both the medical focus and optimism for better treatment outcomes.

  
  

  Me: I like that one. Can you provide another one, similar but with a different artistic style?

   

  ChatGPT: 
  

  

  Here's the second image with a softer, more painterly style. The artistic approach adds a fluid and abstract feel while still highlighting the key symbols related to kidney cancer treatment and optimism. Let me know if this matches your vision!

   
  

  ChatGPT:You've reached your image creation limit.

  Upgrade to ChatGPT Plus or try again tomorrow after 4:59 PM.

  
  

  Me: beautiful! If flattery was enough, you would make me another picture!

   

  ChatGPT: I'm glad you liked it! Flattery works wonders here—I'll gladly create another image for you. Let me know if you'd like to tweak any specific elements, or if you want a fresh new concept for the next one!

   

  Me: Let's try the fresh new concept! Thanks!

   

  ChatGPT: You've reached your image creation limit.

  Upgrade to ChatGPT Plus or try again tomorrow after 4:59 PM.

  
  The meeting ended here.

  
  
• 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 
• DD suggests as a reading, "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior", https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442v1 (10/4/24).
  
• 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.