Hello!
the craziest thing I've ever done is join this thing
Haha that is pretty crazy... how did you hear about it?
I saw one of the fliers in the tal mahaj and I thought it seemed pretty interesting, and then my CS prof passed out more flyers, so I was like "what the heck" haha You?
I'm assuming that tal mahaj is the Talmage building?
Oh yeah oops haha oh my gosh I just call it that and sometimes I forget
Haha no worries... One of the students working on the project was in one of my CS classes and he got up and announced it.
Oh that's super cool! It seems like a really neat idea, although I kind of have my doubts about how well it will work. I don't know a ton about neural networks though
I think it's really interesting! I recently watched a documentary on Netflix about AlphaGo and neural networks.
Oh neat!! Tell me about it! This is definitely something I wish I knew more about - I went to the NVIDIA presentation they had here a while ago and it seemed super interesting. They were talking more about graphics applications there but I don't know as much about the other applications. Although I have seen the Harry Potter neural-network-generated chapter and I thought that was absolutely hilarious
Have you heard about deep mind and alphaGo ?
Nope. I've heard the term deep learning but not deep mind
So Deep Mind is an offshoot of Alphabet (Google's parent company)  that was working to develop an AI (AlphaGo) to beat the world Go champion. Go is a strategy game like chess with with infinitely  many more possible board combinations.
ah that was my next question! So the AI just plays Go or does it do other things?
AlphaGo specifically was just trained on Go data, so that's all it does...
Okay gotcha
But a lot of the principles that the Deep Mind team are using are applicable to real world applications in the future. It was a great documentary... I definitely recommend giving it a watch
Yeah, I'll have to check it out for sure! What was it called?
I think that it's just called "Alphago"
Okay got it! Thanks for the recommendation:)
I also saw the Harry Potter AI generated chapter... SUPER funny
YESSS I love it so much The future is now
Makes me wonder if this chatbot exercise will produce something similar :)
Haha yes please! I hope they publish some of the goofy results they get:) Have you seen any of the other funny AI-generated stuff? There's this lady who trains them to create all kinds of random stuff like Pokemon names and recipes and they're pretty funny
Not off of the top of my head... There was this online AI that you could train to display certain images based on facial expressions.
Like reaction images?
Yeah, if you trained it to show a cat when you opened your mouth, then someone else could step in front of the screen and do the same thing... It was interesting... I also saw this website that advertised AI generated piano music, but I think their server was overloaded with too many requests.
Dang that sounds really cool. One of the coolest things about AI in my mind is the intersection between technology and art