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       Andrej Karpathy: Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT [video]
        
       Author : leroman
       Score  : 224 points
       Date   : 2025-02-05 18:29 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | ipsum2 wrote:
       | He's made more than 5 videos covering basically the same topic,
       | of transformer architecture and training. Wonder whats different
       | about this one?
        
         | ks2048 wrote:
         | From the description:                   I have one "Intro to
         | LLMs" video already from ~year ago, but that is just a re-
         | recording of a random talk, so I wanted to loop around and do a
         | lot more comprehensive version.
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         | I think he has videos on building GPT2 from scratch, but this
         | seems more high-level.
        
         | karpathy wrote:
         | My YouTube videos fall into two tracks:
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         | 1. technical track (all the GPT repro series)
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         | 2. general audience track
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         | For (2), I had a 1hr video from 1 year ago, but I didn't
         | actually expect that video to be some kind of authoritative
         | introduction to LLMs. The history is that I was invited to give
         | an LLM talk (to general audience), prepared some random slides
         | for a day, gave the talk, and then re-recorded the talk in my
         | hotel room later in a single take, and that become the video.
         | It was quite random and haphazard. So I wanted to loop back
         | around more formally and do a more comprehensive intro to LLMs
         | for general audience; Something I could for example give to my
         | parents, or a friend who uses ChatGPT all the time and is
         | interested in it, but doesn't have the technical background to
         | go through my videos in (1). That's this video.
        
           | gdjdkslslp wrote:
           | I haven't watched this video yet, but do you plan to create
           | any technical videos in the (1) series on RL in LLMs?
        
             | amelius wrote:
             | This would be very welcome as it brings us closer to
             | understanding the secret sauce behind training a real,
             | practical LLM.
        
           | gardenhedge wrote:
           | I watched that one after finding it randomly! Will give the
           | new one a watch too
        
           | gnunez wrote:
           | Great work! I love your videos; they've taught me so much.
           | Any plans for a Mixture of Experts (MoE) video? My
           | understanding is that starting from GPT4 most advance models
           | use MoE to some extent. For example, can I take the model
           | from your GPT2 video and just change the feed forward layer
           | to an MoE layer like the one found here (1)? I guess I can
           | just try it myself but I enjoy the expert guidance you
           | provide in your videos. Please don't stop! great content!
           | 
           | 1. https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-
           | inference/blob/main/src...
        
       | sota_pop wrote:
       | Really love his "let's build" series - I end up picking up cool
       | Python tricks along the process, even in addition to the higher
       | level content.
        
       | demarq wrote:
       | I wish there were another way to distribute video. Content
       | disappears from youtube eventually, for silly reasons.
       | 
       | I think this is important content, the more people know how ai
       | works under the hood the more empowered society will be.
        
         | IncreasePosts wrote:
         | You can just make a torrent of the video. It will then survive
         | as long as you/others are willing to seed it.
        
         | m_ppp wrote:
         | Do you think videos disappearing is the biggest problem with
         | YouTube from a distribution perspective?
        
           | demarq wrote:
           | Durability is not a Distribution problem.
        
             | m_ppp wrote:
             | I guess more in the problem of whether or not you consider
             | it a good distribution platform, if you can't ascertain its
             | durability.
        
         | Dinux wrote:
         | YouTube is known for not deleting videos, and so far the never
         | have (with some obvious exceptions)
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | If accessible knowledge about how LLMs work ever disappears, it
         | won't be due to YouTube.
        
       | tmp111111 wrote:
       | Andrej, I like you much more now than when you were at Tesla. You
       | have been adding real value to my life and many others. Thank
       | you.
        
       | Dinux wrote:
       | Thanks Andrej. I have a pretty good understanding of how LLMs
       | work and how they are trained, but alot of my friends don't.
       | These videos/talks give them 'some' idea.
        
       | behnamoh wrote:
       | I'm a simple man, I see a Karpathy video, I click, I watch, I
       | enjoy. :)
        
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