Reference Materials for Generative AI
This is far from a complete set of materials. Everyone in the universe seems to have decided that AI is the coming thing. Suggestions and additions for this list are are solicited. Send copies and/or links to allison@stanford.edu, Flag them as EE380 related and why you think they are important.
Knuth, Wolfram, and ChatGPT-3.
https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt
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
Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, shared his ideas about Artificial Intelligence and the future of humanity.
AI and the future of humanity | Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontiers Forum
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.
Geoffrey Hinton, called the Grandfather of AI, left Google because of
the dangers he sees. Geoffrey gave a EE380 talk April 6, 2016 (Abstract)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIRCybGgHts