📱 Lecture by Andrej Karpathy: "How to Create GPT-2"

Recently departed from OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy has released a new smash-hit video on YouTube. For 4 hours, the developer explains how to create a GPT-2 model from scratch. In less than a week, the video has garnered 200,000 views, with AI enthusiasts thanking Andrej for his work and requesting more lectures in the comments.

Difficulty Level: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Who will find it interesting: IT professionals and AI enthusiasts with a basic understanding of deep learning. Knowledge of Python is essential. It might also be helpful to watch Karpathy's previous lectures, where he gradually explains the structure of large language models (LLMs).

Value of the lecture: This is one of the most detailed masterclasses available for free online. Additionally, its author is part of the team that created ChatGPT and is one of the top AI developers in the world.

🕹 About the Lecture

Andrej Karpathy creates a GPT-2 model right before his viewers' eyes, starting literally from an empty file. Step by step, the developer builds an LLM, explaining the architecture and code optimization in detail. Karpathy specifically focuses on how to properly configure the model for fast training and optimize the training process and hyperparameters. According to Andrej, the goal is to set up the model so that you can start training it before going to bed and wake up with a ready GPT-2. Which is exactly what he does in his video 🆒

Why GPT-2:

⚫️ This model marked a new era in the history of LLMs.
⚫️ Creating and training this model can be done on home hardware.
⚫️ It closely resembles modern Llama models, providing AI enthusiasts with current knowledge, even if based on an older model.

Lecture Timeline:

➡️ How GPT-2 works.
➡️ Optimization of the training process.
➡️ Hyperparameters.
➡️ Training results.

We also recommend watching the following lectures by Andrej Karpathy:

✅ What are large language models
✅ What are tokens in LLM

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