Spring 2022 Computer Science 458

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Winter Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Lecture: 3/7/2022

Administrivia

  • Recorded lectures are in the Canvas media library,

  • Assignments Note revisions to paper assignment, which is no longer embargoed. The final project assignment is also available.

  • Mid-semester feedback is available on canvas. I welcome your comments.

    Last Wednesday's lecture was by Alborz Geramifard, from Meta.

  • He referred to their opensource code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/simmc2 Note the parent directory contains lots of other facebook/meta opensource code.
  • He also referred to the BLEU Score for NLP (Bi-Lingual Evaluation Understudy.)
  • He referred to BART. See BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension
  • Facebook/Meta has open positions.
    Facebook AI’s mission is to empower people to build community and bring the world closer together through artificial intelligence. As part of this mission, Facebook believes that augmented reality and metaverse will be the future platform for connectivity for which conversation and interactional AI systems are going to be a critical component. Even today, millions of people use natural-language interfaces via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger to connect with each other. We strive to create new interactional technologies that have a deep understanding of the context and deliver a personalized experience to the user that is both task-oriented and empathic. Moreover, users are in charge of driving the interaction rather than following a predefined interaction flow. The next generation of interactional AI systems will be multi-modal and pro-active, integrating cues across several modalities to provide creative and on-spot response to the users through augmented reality enabled devices. More information is accessaible through recent public posts:
    Blogpost: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/project-cairaoke/
    Project CAIRaoke Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnD6iRN9dt8
    Full Talk: https://fb.watch/bnzX2iCtge/ Start from: 1:04:06

    Last Monday's speaker was John Niccolai from Citadel. If you are interested in pursuing employment opportunities at Citadel, John suggests contacting their campus recruiter for Yale: Cody Patrina (cody.patrina@citadel.com). She would be happy to work with you.

    Next Monday's speaker is Professor William Goetzmann, from the Yale School of Management. He will be in person and we will take him out to dinner afterward. We will invite four students.

    Goal-based Decision Making: VOTE

    See Goal-based Decision Making. Stephen Slade. Hardcover: 304 pages. Publisher: Psychology Press (October 1, 1993). It is also available at the Yale Bookstore. Online copy through Yale library Online copy of thesis from which book was derived at Yale Library

    See Running VOTE on the zoo.

    Check out sarcastic-explanation

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