10/23/26: Project concept discussions

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays by Zoom. Anyone can join. Attend any or all sessions. 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 (229^th meeting, Oct. 23, 2026)

• Today: 
• RM informal project discussion: the Kurzweil vs. Moravec debate, etc.
• BD informal project discussion: AI-assisted mainframe security log analysis and threat classification system. (Visuals in email.) 
•  Future plans
• 10/30: informal project discussion: MO on AI for job applications, including (1) Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and (2) Tool-Augmented Language Models
• 11/6: informal project discussion: JA on AI Powered Retail Line Review and Product Recommendation
• Read/view something if time allows.
• ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
• 7/17/26: We got up to "Across 75 papers..." 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. We have read the title.
• 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 in doc, 125 in Acrobat. Article got a 4.
• Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
• Other 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.

• Any other announcements?