Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
April 19, 2023
Open Forum May 3, 2023
Moderated by Dennis Allison, Stanford
Large Language Model Generative Artificial Inelligence Systens such as chatGPT and GPT-4 continue to evolve explosiely. They are the target of research investigations by professionals and amateurs alike. Some of us have even mumbled under our breath that the Singularity has arrived.
In the May 3, 2023 EE380 meeting, I would like everyone who is able to participate in the live colloquium and be prepared and ready to offer reasoned, well thought through comments with supporting evidence about the impacts we may forecast for artificial intelligence. Google may be your friend here; Bing may be more creative if you have the ChatGPT extensions installed.
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Topic: Colloquium on Computer Systems -- May 3, 2023
Time: May 3, 2023 04:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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One video which has captured a lot of attention comes from Aza Raskin and his colleague Tristan Harris at the Center for Humane Technology. They have given a provocative talk about the current developments in large language models. The talk about capabilities, the speed at which things evolve (and why). https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xoVJKj8lcNQ&t=854s
Also of interest is
The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence | 60 Minutes
A recent Open Letter prepared by The Future of Life Institute signed by over 1000 people has called for a pause of at least 6 months for the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. At this writing, there are 27,000 signatutors. Be sure to look at the spectrum of people who have signed the Open Letter and what it is the open letter proposes. The “experts” are often not experts and have signed without doing any research, experimentation, or thought–or so it seems.
Just a few days ago, Geoffrey Hinton, called the Grandfather of AI, left Google because of the danges he sees. Geoffrey gave a EE380 talk April 6, 2016 (Abstract, Video).
I am always interested in what people are writing, drawing, thinking. If you encounter something interesting, send me a URL and the usual bibliographic information and I will make the information available on the EE380 website, ee380.stanford.edu.