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AI(Tech) Subgroup

The AI (Tech) sub-group is a subset of the main AI group which explores technology aspects (what some people call 'Maths').

The intention is to save the main group from overly technical and complex discussions, whilst allowing the sub-group to get well into such things.

All the members of the sub-group are also members of the main group, and report interesting discussions back to the main group.

A summary page of AI Sharings is available.

AI (Tech) Subgroup meetings

  • Two articles about the Future of AI. These are not heavy academic papers - try them!

  • There were 7 members at the meeting. The meeting discussed venues and frequency, and decided to use the Scout HQ even thugh the group was small, with the option of using Sam's house or The Tytherington Club for some meetings. The Sub-group will aim to meet two Tuesdays a month,. The main discussion was around…

  • Last meeting the Sub-group had an extensive discussion of the issue of copyright material in corpera. This is an article from the iPaper by Chris Stokel-Walker about this issue. An article from Saturday's (31st May) Guardian about creatives being put out of work. This is an article from New Scientist, which, as Sam says in…

  • In preparation for this meeting, as well as reading Chapter 7 of the Neural Networks book (see last meeting), Peter Whitham suggests we read the following short article, which critiques the current approach to AI through LLMs, and suggests a target benchmark for a real AI. Here is another paper, this time by two professors…

  • The meeting revolved around a discussion of what is Intelligence? It was agreed that everyone would attempt to read chapter 7 on Neural Networks for next meeting from Speech and Language Processing by Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin which is shared below.

  • A video had been circulated, to follow on from Bryan's presentation last session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk There was a discussion about GPTs and Hallucination (a paper published in Communications of the ACM): We did some admin, and Bryan then continued his presentation from last session.