• Alone, or with a partner, use ChatGPT to create a poem or song about life with our new AI tools (or a similar topic related to ML or AI). Also save the prompts you used to achieve this result. What prompting strategies did you find useful?
• Bonus points: If you created the text for a song, use other generative AI tools to make the music for it and sing the lyrics. 🤩
• Pick any two readings from the lists below based on your interests. You don’t need to read them in their entirety, but attempt to extract some key quotes & arguments, and add them to the shared documents.
  • LLM Criticism
    • Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜
      • Shared Notes on Stochastic Parrots
    • Matthew Kirschenbaum: Prepare for the Textpocalypse (The Atlantic, March 8 2023)
      • Shared Notes on Textpocalypse
  • LLM Emergence
    • Michal Kosinski: Theory of Mind Might Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models (2023, preprint)
    • • Shared Notes on Emergence
  • Technical Papers on GPT
    • OpenAI: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020, paper accompanying GPT-3 release)
    • Jean Kaddour, Joshua Harris et al: Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models (2023, preprint, “best paper on the state of LLMs”)
      • Shared Notes on LLM Technical