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10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
- emil-lp 8mo ago[flagged]
- axseem 8mo agoIt really depends on the target audience, because a lot of people have no idea what they are using is called an LLM or that there are various types of generative AI.
- gignico 8mo agoI think the problem is the under representation of other branches of AI research: knowledge representation, automated reasoning, planning, etc. These are important topics with important industrial applications which have the only downsides to not be suitable for implementing friendly chatbots and for raising the stocks of Silicon Valley companies.
- Kaethar 8mo agoI doubt renowned US universities don't offer courses that cover those topics. As someone who studied in a university system where the courses you had to take were mostly set in stone (just starting to offer some electives now), I really fancy the option of being able to choose what you study as much as possible. The AI course I took was mostly symbolic methods and some classic ML at the end. Most students were not interested at all and would've probably been more engaged studying ML directly. Too bad that wasn't an option.
- small_model 8mo agoWell it's the dominant and most successful implemented AI, would a comp sci course teach every failed computer architecture or focus on the ones that are in wide use today.
- suddenlybananas 8mo agoI think comp sci courses focuse on fundamentals rather than what's popular. Besides, other kinds of AI are not "failures", they have plenty of uses.
- gield 8mo agoYour analogy to computer architectures doesn't make sense, unless comparing GPT-like LLMs to different LLM architectures like Mamba or RWKV. It indeed wouldn't make sense to not teach about Mamba or RWKV in an introductory AI or LLM course. AI is much broader than LLMs alone. Computer vision, RL, classical ML, recommender systems, speech recognition, ... are still part of AI, just not very visible to the average consumer.
- utopiah 8mo ago> most successful implemented AI According to what? Spent money? Number of users? Outcomes and if so which ones?
- boredemployee 8mo agoprobably according to marketing and not limited to hallucination
- smokel 8mo agoDon't trip over words. The course offers quite a range of knowledge that is suitable outside LLMs. It's an introduction.
- jccx70 8mo ago[dead]
- cubefox 8mo agoThis is a perfectly reasonable take. It's quite outrageous that this was flagged.
- sim04ful 8mo agoNothing on symbolic reasoning ?
- cultofmetatron 8mo agoI believe that would be part of whats now "classical ai"
- xdavidliu 8mo agothat would be the exact opposite of modern
- chvid 8mo agoNo. That will be covered by the Post-modern AI course in the fall semester.
- leonvoss 8mo agoThat's not AI.
- DonaldFisk 8mo agoWhy not? It was called AI at the time.
- aanet 8mo ago> AI Policy for the AI Course “ Students are permitted to use AI assistants for all homework and programming assignments (especially as a reference for understanding any topics that seem confusing), but we strongly encourage you to complete your final submitted version of your assignment without AI. You cannot use any such assistants, or any external materials, during in-class evaluations (both the homework quizzes and the midterms and final). The rationale behind this policy is a simple one: AI can be extremely helpful as a learning tool (and to be clear, as an actual implementation tool), but over-reliance on these systems can currently be a detriment to learning in many cases. You absolutely need to learn how to code and do other tasks using AI tools, but turning in AI-generated solutions for the relatively short assignments we give you can (at least in our current experience) ultimately lead to substantially less understanding of the material. The choice is yours on assignments, but we believe that you will ultimately perform much better on the in-class quizzes and exams if you do work through your final submitted homework solutions yourself.”
- linhns 8mo agoThis is the way it should be. AI to speed up the understanding process, and one final evaluation without any help to cement the understanding.
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- topherhunt 8mo agoI don't think the final evaluation is to "cement the understanding" so much as _verify_ that students have taken accountability for their own learning process.
- aanet 8mo ago^ This This is what a student, who truly wants to learn rather than simply complete a course / certification, would do... Use AI tools to explain + learn, but not outsource the learning process itself to the tools.
- gabrieledarrigo 8mo agoDo you think this is a good course? Or, what do you suggest as a structured course to learn how LLMs work?
- aboardRat4 8mo agoNice to finally see the revival of Lisp and Prolog.
- signa11 8mo agoprolog in another skin is called erlang you know.
- hearsathought 8mo agoLisp and Prolog never really "vived" nor were they ever really gone/dead. So they can't be revived. They've always been there, in the background, in their niche. As they always will.
- DonaldFisk 8mo agoSadly, not part of this course, though Lisp and Prolog are very useful for other things. C's fine for building neural networks from scratch, and you can glue different subsystems together to make anything more complex than that using Python.
- aboardRat4 8mo ago>Sadly, not part of this course, Huh? What do they mean by AI then?
- hnarayanan 8mo agoHahaa
- mold_aid 8mo agoCan't wait for postmodern AI.
- frankdenbow 8mo agothanks for sharing, these look great.
- teleforce 8mo agoI hope the instructor will publish a textbook to support and accompany the course, will buy in a heartbeat.
- apavlo 8mo agoFor those that are unaware, the instructor of this is on the board of OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/zico-kolter-joins-openais-board-of-directors/ https://openai.com/index/zico-kolter-joins-openais-board-of-...
- somethingsome 8mo agoI'm a little annoyed that 'modern AI' refers here only on LLMs, modern AI is way bigger than that. Having said that, it's probably a good course, CMU courses are often great. I was just expecting way more sota models in many fields due to the title. If someone has this kind of ressource I would be extremely interested!
- neriymus 8mo agoI started doing the free version of the course a few days ago - the lessons are excellent but what is even better are the homework tasks which allows me to run my tests locally! It's sometimes easy to just listen and understand, but be unable to write the code myself - having this coding homework task has really helped me solidify this new knowledge. 10/10 would recommend
- jasonfarnon 8mo agoCan you share what hardware resources are expected for the assignments? Are the students just doing this on their personal computers or are they given cluster access?
- melasadra 8mo agoTo those who actually are actually attempting to complete the course ie doing all the assignments in addition to watching lectures: In your estimation : How much time does one realistically need every week to successfully finish the course?