Week 8 Lecture - Generative AI, Part I

Lisa Yan, October 15th, 2024

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Goldman. Open letter calling for AI 'pause' shines light on fierce debate around risks vs. hype. VentureBeat. 2023.
• Required [Ed post] Nuñez. Titans of AI Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun oppose call for pause on powerful AI systems. VentureBeat. 2023.
• Required [Ed post] Pohl. UC Berkeley historian of science ponders AI's past, present, and future. UC Berkeley News. 2023.
• Required [Ed post] Harris. Press Call by Vice President Harris On Artificial Intelligence. The White House. 2024.
• Optional [Ed post] The White House. FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. 2023.
• Optional [Ed post] Office of the Governor. “Governor Newsom Signs Executive Order to Prepare California for the Progress of Artificial Intelligence”. 2023.
• Optional [Ed post] DeepLearningAI. Why the 6 month AI Pause is a Bad Idea. 2023.
• Optional [Ed post] College of CDSS. “California agencies, UC Berkeley, Stanford to study generative AI impacts”. 2023.

CS H195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] García, Gasser. Stochastic Parrots: How Natural Language Processing Research Has Gotten Too Big for Our Own Good. Science for the People. 2021.
• Required [Ed post] NPR. ChatGPT vs. the climate: The hidden environmental costs of AI: Part 1. 2024.
• Required [Ed post] Steinhardt. Future ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively Different. Bounded Regret. 2022.
• Optional [Ed post] Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, Shmitchell. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. ACM. 2021.