CS324 lecture notes (Winter 2022)

As CS324 is a new class, the lecture notes are being constructed on the fly. New content will be added as the quarter progresses.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Capabilities
• Harms I
• Harms II
• Data
• Security
• Legality
• Modeling
• Training
• Parallelism
• Scaling laws
• Selective architectures
• Adaptation
• Environmental impact