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AI for Beginners: Inside Large Language Models

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Overview

Understand how LLMs actually work under the hood from scratch with practical and fun lessons. No prior knowledge required!
  • Learn the fundamentals of Large Language Models with engaging, beginner-friendly explanations
  • Gain practical experience and a deeper understanding of both the benefits and shortcomings of LLMs through hands-on exercises
  • Understand the breakthroughs that have enabled the creation of frontier models that power ChatGPT
  • Go beyond the basics to understand how LLMs predict the next word and whether they are truly Artificial Intelligence

Syllabus

  •   Introduction
    • Introduction
    • Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor
    • Course Resources
  •   How LLMs Work
    • Introduction to LLMs
    • Tokens
    • Word Guessing Machines?
    • Thinking Like LLMs - Roll a Dice
    • The Transformer Model
    • Inside LLMs
    • GPT Meaning
    • Exercise: Visualize the LLM Architecture
    • The Training Process
    • Base Model vs. Assistant Model
    • Thinking Like LLMs - The Reversal Curse
    • Exercise: The Reversal Curse
    • Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
    • Exercise: Use ChatGPT to Read the Research
    • The World of LLMs
  •   AI Research and the Quest for Artificial General Intelligence
    • Introduction - Through The Looking Glass...
    • Mechanistic Interpretability - Part 1
    • Mechanistic Interpretability - Part 2
    • Scaling Laws - Model Size
    • Scaling Laws - Dataset Size
    • Scaling Laws - Training Compute
  •   Where To Go From Here?
    • Let's Keep Learning!
    • Review This Byte!

Taught by

Scott Kerr

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