Best clips & highlights from “The spelled-out intro to language modeling: building makemore”

by Andrej Karpathy

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▶ 0:20–1:09

AI Generates Unique Baby Names

It introduces the core concept of the project with a relatable and intriguing use case.

Caption Struggling to name your baby? 👶 Our AI generates unique, name-like suggestions! #AI #BabyNames #UniqueNames #Tech

▶ 1:30–2:02

How AI Predicts Next Characters

It explains the core technical concept of a character-level language model in an accessible way.

Caption Ever wondered how AI generates text? It's all about predicting the NEXT character! 🤯 #AIExplained #LanguageModel #MachineLearning #HowItWorks

▶ 2:03–2:35

Build Your Own GPT-2!

It reveals the ambitious goal of the series, promising to teach viewers how to build a transformer equivalent to GPT-2.

Caption From simple models to building a GPT-2 equivalent! 🚀 This series will demystify modern AI. #GPT2 #AIdevelopment #Transformers #LearnAI

▶ 2:35–2:57

From Text to DALL-E & Stable Diffusion

It teases future advanced topics, showing the progression from basic models to cutting-edge image generation AI.

Caption Beyond text generation! 🎨 We're building towards understanding DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. #AIroadmap #DALL-E #StableDiffusion #FutureofAI

▶ 4:36–5:26

One Word, Many AI Examples

It explains how a single word provides multiple data points for training a character-level model, including start and end predictions.

Caption Did you know one word can teach an AI so much? 🤔 Unpacking the hidden data in 'Isabella'! #AIinsights #DataScience #MachineLearningTips #DeepLearning

▶ 5:44–6:23

Starting Simple: Bi-gram Language Model

It introduces the foundational bi-gram model as the first step, making complex AI accessible for beginners.

Caption Let's start at the very beginning! 💡 Building our first language model: the simple yet powerful bi-gram. #BeginnerAI #CodingTutorial #LanguageModel #StepByStep

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