CCS/ITSRCI Seminar Series on AI in Practice
offered jointly with the IBI Center for Applied AI and UK AI/ML Hub
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time but has only recently become a household name. Through advancements in machine learning and large language models, AI can generate high-quality content such as text, images, or audio. This capability enables exciting new products and services that enhance productivity and transform how we manage our daily tasks. In academia, AI plays an increasingly crucial role in driving groundbreaking discoveries and revolutionizing educational approaches at all levels.
The University of Kentucky community has embraced AI’s potential in research and education. Researchers from all disciplines use AI tools creatively to find a path and shorten the time to new discoveries. Likewise, educators and students at UK use AI tools to create new ways to present and internalize knowledge.
The UK Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), ITS Research Computing Infrastructure, the IBI Center for Applied AI (IBI/CAAI), and the UK Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Hub have joined forces to offer a year-long seminar series aimed at making AI “practical” to the broad UK community. The series’ program will consist of talks by UK scholars on using AI tools and techniques to advance their research or develop new instructional material and methodologies, along with tutorial-type presentations of specific AI tools. Presentations will occur on Wednesdays at noon in the CCS conference room (McVey Hall, Room 327). The venue provides some space for in-person participation; remote participation via Zoom will also be possible. The first presentation is scheduled for September 11th. The series program can be found at https://www.ccs.uky.edu/ccs-seminar-series-on-ai-in-practice/.
THURSDAYS AT 12:15 PM
327 McVey Hall & Zoom
The next seminar:
Sept 19, 2024 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Speaker:
Dr. Brent Harrison, Computer Science, University of Kentucky
Where:
327 McVey Hall
(Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/82467171189)
Title:
Practical Value Alignment Using GPT-4o
Abstract:
As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems grow in power, their risk of causing unintentional harm grows. This is because often these systems are optimizing for criteria that is different than our own, often meaning that it does not consider the many social and cultural norms that we implicitly and explicitly use when making decisions. In a value-aligned system, however, system behavior and objectives are aligned with expected human sociocultural norms. Creating a value-aligned system, however, can be difficult as sources of explicit value information are scarce.
In this tutorial, I will discuss how large language models, specifically GPT-4o, can be used to perform practical value alignment using a corpus of children’s stories. I will go over the entire learning pipeline, beginning from data curation and cleaning, all the way through zero and few-shot value extraction using GPT-4o. Ideally this will demonstrate the necessary steps to effectively use LLMs to perform complex learning tasks.
Seminar Schedule:
September 12, 2024
Dr. Brent Harrison, Computer Science, University of Kentucky
A Gentle Introduction to Modern Machine Learning
Slides
September 19, 2024
Dr. Brent Harrison, Computer Science, University of Kentucky
Practical Value Alignment Using GPT-4o
September 26, 2024
Aaron Mullen, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky
CLASSify: A Self-Service Machine Learning Platform
More To Be Announced!
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