7/26/24: Presentation on constructing videos that tell a story, using AI agent (IS)

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Agenda & Minutes

122nd meeting, July 26, 2024

 

• Today: IS presentation on constructing videos that tell a story, using AI agents.

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The items below are to be handled after this week

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
  
• Here are the latest readings and viewings.
• Chapter 6 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc and we  started on that this time. We got up to time 11:00 and can start there next time we view it.
  
• 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.
  

• Possible KO presentation on 8/9/24. 
  

7/19/24: Viewing and discussion

 

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Agenda & Minutes

121st meeting, July 19, 2024

 

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Next week: IS presentation on story-telling production using AI agents.
  
• Current activity: Here are the latest readings and viewings.
• Last time we finished Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.
• Chapter 6 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc and we  started on that this time. We got up to time 11:00 and can start there next time we view it.
  
• 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.
  

• Possible KO presentation on 8/9/24. 
  

7/12/24: Finish viewing a video with animations on Transformers

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Agenda & Minutes

120th meeting, July 12, 2024

 

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Current activity: Here are the latest readings and viewings. We will start on these.
• We finished Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.
• Chapter 6 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc and we can start on that next time.
  
• 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.

• KO presentation on 7/19/24. 
  

7/5/24: Readings/Viewings

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Agenda & Minutes

119th meeting, July 5, 2024

 

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Current activity: Here are the latest readings and viewings. We will start on these.
• Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M. We viewed up to time 15:00 and can start there next time (or maybe restart from a little earlier but not from the beginning, probably. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.

The meeting ended here.

 

• 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.
• KO presentation on 7/19/24. 
  

6/28/24: Presentation (JK)

 

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Agenda & Minutes

118th meeting, June 28, 2024

 

• Schedule:

• Updates, news, or comments?
• Today: Presentation by JK.
  
• Current activity: Here are some potential readings and viewings, ranked with the highest evaluated ones first. We will read/view from the first one or two soon.
  
  1. Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.We viewed the first two segments. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.
  2. 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.
  3. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU (suggested by BL). We got up to time 4:25. 5/24/24 vote to finish it was 3 5.234/6.
  4. https://ai-challenges.nist.gov/genai. 6/7/24 vote was 3 2/7. We ended at "fake or misleading information."
  5. We've been reading "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments ..." starting at "2.3 Music" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). We got up to "We then asked the model to describe the tune in musical terms." 5/24/24 vote to read more of the paper was 3 1/5.
  6. https://www.nist.gov/ai-test-evaluation-validation-and-verification-tevv. We read up to "NIST aims to expand these efforts, driving AI research and enabling progress by:". 6/7/24 vote was 3 1.75/8.
  7. Chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4. We read up to "Transformers are language models" and evaluated on 6/14/24 at: 3 1.75/9.
  8. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125. We read up to "This trend persists even when controlling for sample-level similarity between pretraining and downstream datasets, and testing on purely synthetic data distributions." in the abstract. Evaluation on 6/14/24 was: 2 8.5/9.
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film). We read up to "The film was originally marketed" on 6/14/24. Vote to read more was: 1.4.

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Anything else?
  

6/14/2024: Finish evaluating new readings

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117th meeting, June 14, 2024

• Schedule:

• Next week (6/21/24): No meeting.
• Following week (6/28/24): Presentation by JK.
  
• Updates, news, or comments?
• We evaluated some other readings/viewings for more in-depth examination later. Here they are with the highest evaluated ones in order first.
1. Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.We viewed the first two segments. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.
2. 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.
3. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU (suggested by BL). We got up to time 4:25. 5/24/24 vote to finish it was 3 5.234/6.
4. https://ai-challenges.nist.gov/genai. 6/7/24 vote was 3 2/7. We ended at "fake or misleading information."
5. We've been reading "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments ..." starting at "2.3 Music" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). We got up to "We then asked the model to describe the tune in musical terms." 5/24/24 vote to read more of the paper was 3 1/5.
6. https://www.nist.gov/ai-test-evaluation-validation-and-verification-tevv. We read up to "NIST aims to expand these efforts, driving AI research and enabling progress by:". 6/7/24 vote was 3 1.75/8.
7. Chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4. We read up to "Transformers are language models" and evaluated on 6/14/24 at: 3 1.75/9.
8. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125. We read up to "This trend persists even when controlling for sample-level similarity between pretraining and downstream datasets, and testing on purely synthetic data distributions." in the abstract. Evaluation on 6/14/24 was: 2 8.5/9.
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film). We read up to "The film was originally marketed" on 6/14/24. Vote to read more was: 1.4.

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Anything else?
  

6/7/24: Evaluate more potential readings

 

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116th meeting, June 7, 2024

• Schedule:

• Updates, news, or comments?
• Current activity: Evaluate some other readings/viewings for more in-depth examination later.
1. Chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4 starting from "Note that the first attention layer in a decoder block pays attention to" 
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)
4. Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.We viewed the first two segments. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.
5. 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.
6. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU (suggested by BL). We got up to time 4:25. 5/24/24 vote to finish it was 3 5.234/6. 
   
7. https://ai-challenges.nist.gov/genai. 6/7/24 vote was 3 2/7. We ended at "fake or misleading information."
8. We've been reading "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments ..." starting at "2.3 Music" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). We got up to "We then asked the model to describe the tune in musical terms." 5/24/24 vote to read more of the paper was 3 1/5.
9. https://www.nist.gov/ai-test-evaluation-validation-and-verification-tevv. We read up to "NIST aims to expand these efforts, driving AI research and enabling progress by:". 6/7/24 vote was 3 1.75/8.
   

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Anything else?
  
• Reading

• Want to read another article or view another video? Let me know and I'll put it on the list below and/or we can time share across more than one article per meeting!