Spring 2023 Computer Science 458


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Video of the day

See Regulation Framework for ChatGPT Vint Cerf. See RFC 439. PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR.
The keynote speech by Vint Cerf addresses the arrival of large-scale language models such as GPT-3 and the risks associated with the use of machine learning. Cerf notes that machine learning is a narrower kind of intelligence that uses multi-layer neural networks, which were previously discounted in the 1960s as inadequate. However, over the last decade or so, they have become extremely powerful in their functionality. Cerf points out that there are risks associated with the use of machine learning, and these risks can be categorized similarly to the risks associated with self-driving cars. Cerf suggests that low-risk applications of machine learning include making suggestions to users, while high-risk applications include medical diagnosis and automated surgery. Cerf notes that one of the challenges associated with machine learning is the inability to predict or anticipate how the system might go off the rails.

Logical Problem of the Day

Batman, Nick from Great Gatsby, Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. Name another member of this set.

https://pollev.com/slade You may also download the app to your phone. Use the "slade" poll id.

See also.

Administrivia

  • I have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 to 3pm, NOT on Friday, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

  • Last Monday's guest speakers were Joanne Lipman, a graduate of Yale and a lecturer at Yale, and her daughter, Rebecca Distler who is a graduate of Yale College and the School of Public Health, and the co-author of the linked Time Magazine article: "Schools Shouldn't Ban Access to ChatGPT" (January 11, 2023). Distler.pptx Rebecca Distler slides.

    Assignments

    Extension for hw2 to April 6th hw 2 which deals with finance. See Ed Discussion note by Sam regarding alternative to yfinance.

    You should try yahooquery which is alive and well.

    >>> from yahooquery import Ticker
    >>> a = Ticker('AAPL')
    >>> dir(a)
    >>> for p in dir(a):
      print (p)		     
    

    Also, the final project assignment is now available.

    Lecture: 3/6/2023

    Goal-based Decision Making: VOTE

    See Amazon Talk.pdf Goal-based Decision-Making: An Interpersonal Model.

    See also 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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