11/22/24: Demo of use of AI to create animations of physical phenomena

 Machine Learning Study Group

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Agenda & Minutes  (139^th meeting, Nov. 22, 2024) 

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Agenda and minutes

• Announcements, updates, questions, etc.?
1. Meet next Friday? Yes, but it will be short hands-on type session.
   
2. A demo of the real time use of AI to create the Doppler effect interactive animation and perhaps other demos will be scheduled as soon as convenient for RM and VW. Great presentation! Thanks!
   
3. Here is a tool the library is providing. Some people here thought it would be a good idea to try it live during a meeting, so we will do that soon. Maybe even today.
   
   Library trial of AI-driven product Primo Research Assistant
   
   
   The library is testing use of Primo Research Assistant, a generative AI-powered feature of Primo, the library's search tool. Primo Research Assistant takes natural-language queries and chooses academic resources from the library search to produce a brief answer summary and list of relevant resources. This video provides further detail about how the Assistant works.
   You can access Primo Research Assistant directly here, or, if you click "Search" below the search box on the library home page, you will see blue buttons for Research Assistant on the top navigation bar and far right of the Primo page that opens. You will be prompted to log in using your UALR credentials in order to use the Research Assistant.

    
   
4. DB will try to find a masters student to do the project below. An important qualification for the student is to be able to attend these meetings weekly to update us on progress and get suggestions from all of us! 
• Project description: Suppose a generative AI like ChatGPT or Claude.ai was used to write a book about a simply stated task, like "how to scramble an egg," "how to plant and care for a persimmon tree," "how to check and change the oil in your car," or any other question like that. Just ask the AI to provide a step by step guide, then ask it to expand on each step with substeps, then ask it to expand on each substep, continuing until you reached 100,000 words or whatever impressive target one might have.
5. We could have a workshop session where we collectively decide what each followup prompt is.
6. Thanks to DD for providing anonymized transcripts to add to the meeting minutes!
   
7. The campus has assigned a group to participate in the AAC&U AI Institute's activity "AI Pedagogy in the Curriculum." IU is on it and may be able to provide updates when available. Maybe every month or so?
   
8. Anything else anyone would like to bring up?
   

• Here are the latest on readings and viewings
• Next we will work through chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M. We got up 15:50 awhile ago but it was indeed awhile ago so we started from the beginning and went to 15:50 again. Next time we do this video, we will go on from there. (When sharing the screen, we need to click the option to optimize for sharing a video.)
  
• We can work through chapter 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc
• We can work through chapter 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Jl0dxWQs8
  
• Computer scientists win Nobel prize in physics! Https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/popular-physicsprize2024-2.pdf got a evaluation of 5.0 for a detailed reading.
• We can evaluate https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10718663 for reading & discussion.
• 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. 
  

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