This video explores the journey of language models, from their modest beginnings through the development of OpenAI's GPT models & hints at Q*. Our journey takes us through the key moments in neural network research involved in next word prediction. We delve into the early experiments with tiny language models in the 1980s, highlighting significant contributions by researchers like Jordan, who introduced Recurrent Neural Networks, and Elman, whose work on learning word boundaries revolutionized our understanding of language processing. Featuring Noam Chomsky Douglas Hofstadter Michael I. Jordan Jeffrey Elman Geoffrey Hinton Ilya Sutskever Andrej Karpathy Yann LeCun and more.

This is the last video in the series "The Pattern Machine" you can watch it all here:  

Episode 5: Artificial Intelligence

00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - hofstader's thoughts on chatGPT
01:00 - recap of supervised learning
01:55 - first paper on sequential learning
02:55 - first use of state units (RNN)
04:33 - first observation of word boundary detection
05:30 - first observation of word clustering
07:16 - first "large" language model Hinton/Sutskever
10:10 - sentiment neuron (Ilya & Hinton)
12:30 - transformer explaination
15:50 - GPT-1
17:00 - GPT-2
17:55 - GPT-3
18:20 - In-context learning
19:40 - ChatGPT
21:10 - tool use
23:25 - philosophical question: what is thought?