Hello everyone,   Time flies and we’re entering week 8! This week, we’ll focus primarily on exploring the social and ethical questions of LLMs. The diversity and complexity of these issues are well-reflected in our second debate and our readings for the week. As outlined in the syllabus, I recommend starting with a quick review […]

Hello Everyone,   As we enter week 7, we’ll conclude our discussions on individual experiments with ChatGPT on Monday – if you didn’t talk last time, please get prepared on Monday. After the discussion, we’ll delve into the intricacies of Dall.E.3, which will serve as our prime examples of Large Multimodal Models’ creativity.   Wednesday […]

Hello everyone, Firstly, a big round of applause to both teams for their commendable efforts in the debate! The depth and sophistication of the discussions were enlightening, and I personally also gained many new insights from your exchanges and performances. Thank you! The debate was a great commencement to the latter half of our course. […]

Hey everyone, We’re now stepping into the second half of our course, focusing much more on evaluating LLMs and their real-world impacts. We’re moving into territory where there aren’t always clear answers, and I’ll increasingly count on your interests and contributions to help steer our discussions, less lecturing, more chatting and debating. For Monday: We’re […]

From Week 4, we’ll start our Monday class for an about 40 minutes lecture finishing the two approaches to language models, and after that I’ll talk about why and how to make language models large. Then we’ll spend the second half of Monday class and the whole Wednesday class to deepen our exploration into the behaviors, […]