Everybody is talking about (and with) ChatGPT. I tried it and was impressed by how well the language model behaves and finally how real and humanly it appears, despite the obvious nonsense that it outputs. I was wondering how machine learning practically works and how to build a neural network.

Project Description

Learn about AI, ML, neural networks and get a better idea on limitations, risks and opportunities.

Goal for this Hackweek

Understand the concepts, create a demo case for machine learning with OS software.

Resources

Needs time in the first place to view documentation, and probably a Cray EX235a towards the end of the week :-)

Looking for hackers with the skills:

ai artificial-intelligence ml machine-learning neural

This project is part of:

Hack Week 22

Activity

  • about 2 years ago: maritawerner joined this project.
  • about 2 years ago: fgiudici liked this project.
  • about 2 years ago: robert.richardson liked this project.
  • about 2 years ago: maritawerner liked this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai started this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai added keyword "ml" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai added keyword "machine-learning" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai added keyword "neural" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai added keyword "ai" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai added keyword "artificial-intelligence" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: rsimai originated this project.

  • Comments

    • jjanes
      about 2 years ago by jjanes | Reply

      I highly recommend the freely available course from FastAI for this group - https://www.fast.ai/

    • maritawerner
      about 2 years ago by maritawerner | Reply

      Interesting Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination(artificialintelligence)

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