[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models - YouTube

Tutorial   #llm #underthehood #cybersecurity  

These are what I personally think are most thought-provoking takeaways regarding Large Language Models (LLM) from an one-hour YouTube video tutorial by Andrej Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla. The tutorial used plain language to explain #LLM (Large Language Models) #UnderTheHood, how it works and how to build them. In addition, it also covers Andrej's vision of how LLM will evolve in next few years as well as a number of LLM's #cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Regarding how LLM works, Andrej acknowledged that little is known in full detail despite the facts that we know how billions of parameters are dispersed through the neural network and we know how to iteratively adjust them to make the LLM better at prediction but we don't really know how the billions of parameters collaborate to do it. Therefore he recommended we think of LLMs as mostly inscrutable artifacts.

Regarding LLM's future, Andrej predicted an #LLM will evolve into an Operating System in a few years that

• can read and generate text
• has more knowledge than any single human about all subjects
• can browse the internet
• can use the existing software infrastructure (calculator, Python, mouse/keyboard)
• can see and generate images and video
• can hear and speak, and generate music
• can think for a long time using System 2
• can "self-improve" in domains that offer a reward function
• can be customized and finetuned for specific tasks, many versions exist in app stores
• can communicate with other LLMs