Week 11: LLMs and Generative AI

Response due Monday: respond to the readings for Tuesday

Tuesday, April 8: LLMs

Readings

• Madhumita Murgia and the Financial Times Visual Storytelling Team “Generative AI exists because of the transformer” Financial Times, Sept. 12, 2023.
• Bender, Emily M., et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜.” Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 610–23. ACM Digital Library, https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.
• Lauren Goodlad, “Editor’s Introduction: Humanities in the Loop”, Critical AI 2023.

In class

• Slides: Generative AI
• Go over Visual Essay Assignment
• Discussion of LLMs and AI readings
• Generative AI with Microsoft Copilot workshop

Thursday, April 10: Generative AI (with Luke Stark)

• Readings
  • Stark, Luke, “Animation and AI” (moodle link)
• Before class:
  • Prepare 3 questions to ask our guest speaker
• In class: Conversation with Luke Stark

Luke Stark talk: “Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotion, and Animated Agents”

4:15-5:45 PM Dalton 300

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