Hi everyone! Excited to announce that Eric Zelikman (xAI, prev. Stanford) will be giving a talk for our Stanford CS25 Transformers course at 3pm today (Tues, 4/22)! It will be in Gates B01 and livestreamed on Zoom here. Note: this talk will NOT be recorded. Presentation Title: We're All in this Together: Human Agency in an Era of Artificial Agents Presentation Abstract: What does it mean to design agents that collaborate with us effectively and help empower us, even as they become more capable? What lessons can we learn from past advances and what role can academia play in understanding these dynamics and frameworks? Let's talk about how things have evolved so far and some ways they might still evolve. Speaker Bio: I've studied how we can improve AI reasoning, often with inspiration from human reasoning. I helped develop a now-popular algorithm for language models to learn from their own reasoning (self-taught reasoners/STaR). These days, I study reasoning and agents at xAI and think about how they can interact with us. Recordings: Talk recordings are released ~3 weeks after each lecture to this YouTube playlist. Also, the recording of the first lecture this quarter is now released*! Check it out .* We gave a brief overview of Transformers, discussed pretraining (focusing on data strategies [1,2]) and post-training, and highlighted recent trends, applications, and remaining challenges/weaknesses of Transformers. Slides are here. Slides & More Info: The slides will be posted on our course website and on our Discord (over 5000 members).

Hey @Steven Feng how can we sign up for the zoom session, the above shows just a meeting link, want to get it on my calendar