But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers | Deep learning, chapter 5

An introduction to transformers and their prerequisites Early view of the next chapter for patrons: https://3b1b.co/early-attention

Other recommended resources on the topic.

Richard Turner's introduction is one of the best starting places: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.10557.pdf

Coding a GPT with Andrej Karpathy https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY

Introduction to self-attention by John Hewitt https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/readings/cs224n-self-attention-transformers-2023_draft.pdf

History of language models by Brit Cruise: https://youtu.be/OFS90-FX6pg

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0:00 - Predict, sample, repeat 3:03 - Inside a transformer 6:36 - Chapter layout 7:20 - The premise of Deep Learning 12:27 - Word embeddings 18:25 - Embeddings beyond words 20:22 - Unembedding 22:22 - Softmax with temperature 26:03 - Up next

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