Stanford University is offering a free online course, CME 295: Transformers & Large Language Models, taught by Afshine and Shervine Amidi. The course, which has already garnered over 372,000 views on its first lecture, covers the fundamental workings of LLMs, tracing their evolution from recurrent neural networks to the transformer architecture. It delves into key concepts like tokenization, explaining how text is converted into numerical representations that models can process. The curriculum is structured with two exams, a midterm and a final, with no homework assignments. AI
IMPACT Provides accessible foundational knowledge on LLM architecture and operation, potentially increasing AI literacy.
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- Afshine Amidi
- Attention Is All You Need
- ChatGPT
- CME 295: Transformers & Large Language Models
- Hermes Agent
- recurrent neural network
- Shervine Amidi
- Stanford University
- Transformer
- YouTube
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