Name: The impact of chatGPT and other large language models on physics research and education
Start: 2023-07-21T08:55:00-04:00
End: 2023-07-21T17:20:00-04:00
Location: MIT

The impact of chatGPT and other large language models on physics research and education

Friday, July 21, 2023 - 8:55 AM

Monday, July 17, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Friday, July 21, 2023
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: 32-123
Contributions

9:00 AM Introductory remarks - Kevin Burdge (MIT)

9:05 AM Keynote address: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan (remote) - Yann LeCun (NYU/Meta)

10:00 AM Generative AI gives some spectacular demonstrations, but I don’t know how! - Peter Szolovits (MIT)

10:15 AM Language Models as World Models? - Jacob Andreas (MIT)

10:45 AM Some experiments with LLMs, or why the world you were raised to survive in no longer exists - Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (MIT/IAIFI)

11:00 AM The Quantization Model of Neural Scaling - Eric Michaud (MIT)

11:15 AM Keeping AI under control through mechanistic interpretability - Max Tegmark (MIT)

11:30 AM Open discussion on broader societal impacts of LLMs, and implications for physics majors - Kevin Burdge (MIT) Joshua Borrow (MIT)
11:50 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:50 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: 32-123
12:40 PM
12:40 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 32-123
Contributions

12:40 PM Collaborating with ChatGPT to train an unsupervised machine learning algorithm on astronomical data - Emma Chickles (MIT)

12:55 PM Fine-Tuning LLMs for Understanding Fundamental Physics Concepts and Problems - Rumen Dangovski (MIT)

1:10 PM Building a platform for understanding scientific ideas by offloading increasing amounts of the research process to AI - Joshua Ramette (MIT)

1:25 PM Using natural language processing-based information to aid the detector characterization and commissioning activities at various gravitational wave observatories - Nikhil Mukund (MIT)

1:40 PM Interactive demo session on using chatGPT in teaching and research-type applications - Kevin Burdge (MIT)

1:50 PM Open discussion on use of LLMs in teaching and research - Joshua Borrow (MIT) Kevin Burdge (MIT)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Room: 32-123
Contributions

2:30 PM How LLMs Are Changing Teaching at MIT - Christopher Capozzola (MIT)

2:45 PM Why I’m excited (but nervous) about using GPT in my MIT teaching - Daniel Jackson (MIT)

3:00 PM Combing AI transformers for convincing character generation - Loyd Hoyt Waites (MIT)

3:15 PM AI Augmented Support for Computing Services - Julius Heitkoetter (MIT)

3:30 PM Answering student questions all-at-once! A case study for AI in the classroom - Louis Deslauriers (Harvard)

3:45 PM Learning the other way: on AI and acing MIT - David Koplow (MIT)

4:00 PM Conversation on the Use of ChatGPT in Fall 2023 Physics Teaching - Michelle Tomasik (MIT)

4:10 PM Capstone talk: LLMs for Physics, and Physics for LLMs - Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research)

5:10 PM Closing remarks - Kevin Burdge (MIT)