Neural networks & AI

How modern AI works, from a single neuron to building a GPT yourself. Watch them in this order.

  1. 1
    But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1

    3Blue1Brown

    Start here: what a neural network actually is, visually.

  2. 2
    Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Deep Learning Chapter 2

    3Blue1Brown

    Gradient descent: how a network learns from its mistakes.

  3. 3
    Backpropagation, intuitively | Deep Learning Chapter 3

    3Blue1Brown

    Backpropagation, the algorithm behind all of deep learning, intuitively.

  4. 4
    7:58
    Large Language Models explained briefly

    3Blue1Brown

    Large language models in eight minutes: the big picture before the details.

  5. 5
    Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6

    3Blue1Brown

    Attention, the mechanism that made transformers (and ChatGPT) possible.

  6. 6
    The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd

    Andrej Karpathy

    Hands-on: Andrej Karpathy builds a tiny neural network library from scratch.

  7. 7
    Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.

    Andrej Karpathy

    The capstone: build a small GPT from scratch, in code, step by step.

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