5/8/26: How to find a job in AI (plus notebookLM)

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed 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 & Status (207^th meeting, May 8, 2026)

• Announcements
• Sign up for the UALR outreach AI newsletter: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/r/6ACE1AA80DF773AD2540EF23F30FEDED
• AI Hackathon! Announcement: https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/2026/04/ai-hackathon.html
• "AI Arkansas" magazine now exists. Let MJ know if you want hard copies to distribute around! Put out by "AI in the Rock." Expect to see them around campus and get a copy. Read MM's feature article! here is the magazine link:  https://aiarkansas.org/?lm_source=calendar&lm_api_id=cal-PBwm9B54OjEwboD&lm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=luma

• Today:
• More on "How to get a job in AI" (& NotebookLM)
• Soon or today if time: Finish LLMs and randomized algorithms, https://aintwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com/p/readings-and-videos-queued-for-possible.html. We got up to "Obtuseness" section.
• Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion (thanks ZR!).
• For future activities
• Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
• What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
• Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
• Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
• Please suggest a project!

• Any other announcements?