Csc466: Selected Course Documents, Spring 2023

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• January 24, 2023:  Masking on Campus ♦ Syllabus ♦ Special note on Covid absences ♦ Candidate Research Problem/Project assignment ♦ Problem Finding Framework assignment ♦ Candidate Research Problem/Project Model 1: Dobo ♦ Candidate Research Problem/Project Model 2: Taylor ♦ Web Work Site Assignment ♦ MM AI Text Mining Semester Activity ♦ MM AI Text Mining Assignment: Chapter 5 "ConvNets and ImageNet"
• January 26, 2023:  AI Image Generation Assignment ♦ Sequence of Plans Assignment ♦ Sequence of Plans Model ♦ See the sample site for examples of completed tasks taken directly from the initial plan.
 

• January 31, 2023:  Student presentations on Candidate Projects
• February 2, 2023:  Student presentations on Candidate Projects ♦ MM Text Mining Ch5 "ConvNets and ImageNet" Questions
 

• February 7, 2023:  MM Text Mining Ch6 "A Closer Look at Machines That Learn" Assignment ♦ Game Playing Lesson 1
• February 9, 2023:  Continuing Presentations Assignment ♦ Student presentations on Project Plans
 

• February 14, 2023:  Students presented their first task with demo, looked ahead to their second task, and said a word about their mental state with respect to their project.
• February 16, 2023:  Discussed MM Chapter 6 (A Closer Look at Machines That Learn) MM Chapter 6 Questions for Discussion ♦ Announced MM Chapter 7 (On Trustworthy and Ethical AI) reading/mining assignment ♦ Completed discussion of Game Playing Lesson #1 (Basic Concepts) ♦ Presented Game Playing Lesson #2 (Grundy Machine Architecture and Operation) ♦ Continue with student presentations on "next tasks"
 

• February 21, 2023:  MM Text Mining Ch 7 "On Trustworthy and Ethical AI" Assignment ♦
• February 23, 2023:  NO CLASS TODAY -- THE PROFESSOR IS AWAY ♦ Please work hard on your projects!
 

• February 28, 2023:  Student presentations on the status of their research projects
• March 2, 2023:  MM Ch 7 "On Trustworthy and Ethical AI" Questions
 

• March 7, 2023:  MM Text Mining Ch 8 "Rewards for Robots" Assignment ♦ Student presentations on the status of their research projects
• March 9, 2023:  Student presentations on the status of their research projects ♦ On the Procedural Representation of Musical Scales ♦ Simple MxM Exercises
 

• March 14 2023:  Spring break
• March 16, 2023:  Spring break
 

• March 21, 2023:  MM Ch 8 "Rewards for Robots" Questions ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 9 "Game On" Assignment ♦ Annotated Bibliography Assignment ♦ Annotated Bibliography Model ♦ Paper/Report Assignment ♦ Slide Show Assignment ♦ Student presentations on the status of their research projects
• March 23, 2023:  Discussion of MM Ch 8 "Rewards for Robots" ♦ Student presentations on the status of their research projects
 

• March 28, 2023:  Mention an article that VL found, or perhaps that found him: Sparks of AGI / Early Experiments with GPT-4 ♦ Student presentations on the status of their research projects ♦ Perhaps a generative art presentation
• March 30, 2023:  ... MM Ch 9 "Game On" Questions ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 10 "Beyond Games" Assignment ♦ Student presentations on the status of their research projects ♦ Asked students to post work on their annotated bibliographies ♦ Old fashioned lecture on Monte Carlo Tree Search ♦ Overview of Alpha Zero architecture
 

• April 4, 2023:  Some students present annotated bibliographies ♦ Three student project presentations ♦ Watched some of a lecture on Monte Carlo tree search
• April 6, 2023:  Video on the Overview of Alpha Zero architecture ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 10 "Beyond Games" Assignment ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 11 "Words, and the Company They Keep" Assignment ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 12 "Translation as Encoding and Decoding" Assignment ♦ Annotated bibliography presentations ♦ Project presentations ♦
 

• April 11, 2023:  Sebastien Bubeck talk ♦ MM "Why AI Is Harder Than We Think
• April 13, 2023:  MM Text Mining Ch 13 "Ask Me Anything" Assignment ♦ Annotated bibliography presentations ♦ Project presentations ♦ Debunking the great AI lie | Noam Chomsky, Gary Marcus, Jeremy Kahn ♦ Full interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AI
 

• April 18, 2023:  Project presentations. ♦ Chomsky/Marcus interview on the large language models
• April 20, 2023:  GPT-3 vs GPT-4 wrt Winograd Schemas ♦ Presentation of paper stubs ♦ Project presentations ♦ Pro GPT-4 video ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 14 "On Understanding" Assignment ((To be discussed on Thursday, April 28, 2023.))♦
 

• April 25, 2023:  Project presentations ♦ Genartive art presentations
• April 27, 2023:  Project presentations ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 15 "Knowledge, Abstraction, and Analogy in Artificial Intelligence" Assignment ♦ MM Text Mining Ch 16 "Questions, Answers, and Speculations" Assignment
 

• May 2, 2023:  Slide show presentations ♦ MM discussion
• May 4, 2023:  Slide show presentations ♦ MM discussion