7/17/26

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 (215^th meeting, July 17, 2026)

• Announcements: 
• AI startup cohort monthly meetings hosted by MJ
• Next one is Friday Aug. 14 (2nd Friday in each month)
• Readings 
• ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• 7/10/26: We got up to "These failures share a common root..." in the abstract, aided by https://claude.ai/chat/6973902c-60d0-4988-a14c-19462a5cdb16
• We did not evaluate this reading. 
• Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness https://share.google/Zy6eLr76G1XrZUCBz 
• (6/26/26) Evaluation was 2.5 by 4 participants) On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
• Read/view something if time allows.
• The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89. Article got a 4.
• We could combine meetings next week (July 10)...if people would like. 
• Entrepreneurship, AI & Health Learning Cohort @ Monthly from 4pm to 5pm on the second Friday (CDT). https://ualr-edu.zoom.us/j/81263776469?pwd=8KwgPE8gmi5Z2zcgnwoQu4agl9TGz9.1#success (organizer: Marla Johnson).
• 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.
• 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?