Guidelines and Suggestions: 1. Scope of Ideas: While the suggestions provided are meant to kickstart your brainstorming process, they’re not exhaustive. Embrace your creativity and propose unique ideas. (You’re welcome to be more innovative and bold than I am!) However, consider the project’s timeframe – about four weeks. 2. Project Milestones: Even if by […]
Continue reading →To read Ouyang (2022)’s paper, I tried ChatGPT’s PDF plugin to assist reading the paper, and it seems to work well. In this response I will bring up two points, one for my own reaction to the paper and another on the attempt to use ChatGPT assistance. I find the notion of “alignment” very interesting […]
Continue reading →These readings inform me of the history of the development of cognitive science, in particular, how certain concepts that I take for granted (mechanism, machine, computation, information, symbol, etc.) came onto the main stage. There are two main thoughts I had as I read through this history: I noticed a distinctive approach to the Mind-Body […]
Continue reading →Syllabus for Perspectives on Large Language Models: Computational, Cognitive, Social at The University of Chicago (Cognitive Science 20100, Linguistics 20110, Fall 2023) Instructor: Eugene Yu Ji (yuji1@uchicago.edu) Time and Location: Mon and Wed 3:00 – 4:20 pm Harper Mem Library 130 Office hours: Weds 8 – 9 pm Online or by appointment Description: In this […]
Continue reading →Welcome to the University of Chicago’s course site for “Perspectives on Large Language Models: Computational, Cognitive, Social” (Fall 2023). The course is an intellectual journey that invites around 20 undergraduate students at UChicago to critically analyze, discuss, and debate about the cutting-edge advancements in LLMs and AI, as well as their impacts on education, science, […]
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