Thread by @ShayneRedford

This semester my @CCCatMIT co-instructors and I taught #MIT's first post-#ChatGPT Generative AI course, covering:

➡️Uses and new abilities
➡️LM Evaluation
➡️AI-mediated communication
➡️Societal challenges

📜 Syllabus + reading list 📚: ai4comm.media.mit.edu

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It was a 🎢wild journey to teach in the midst of GPT-4 + Bard launches, moratorium letters, and raging online controversies every d*mn day.

We're excited to release our (and our students') learnings, slides, and the talks from our guest speakers.

Stay tuned!

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Over the next few days we'll post talks/talk summaries from:

➡️ @RishiBommasani guest lecture on Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

📜: crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/

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➡️ @_jasonwei on LLM Emergent Abilities as well as a general intro to LLMs

📜: ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/charac…

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➡️ @bakkermichiel on "Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences"

📜: arxiv.org/pdf/2211.15006…

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➡️ @MinaLee__ on "Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction"

📜: arxiv.org/abs/2212.09746 and arxiv.org/abs/2201.06796

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➡️ @informor on "My AI must have been broken": Understanding our Future of AI-Mediated Communication

📜: arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271 and dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/32…

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➡️ @johnjhorton on "Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus?"

📜: arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543

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As well as a panel on a variety of topics (organized by @Schropes) with several speakers: @_ziv_e @mattgroh @bcsaldias @trudypainter and our own instructor @hjian42 !

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This course was designed and taught with my awesome fellow student co-instructors @Schropes @jad_kabbara @hjian42 @suyashfulay @dougb

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