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1:32:22ENA Million Bytes and 256 Symbols: Meta's MEGABYTE Wants to Throw the Tokenizer AwayHost Nathan LabenzLili Yu of Meta AI explains a multiscale transformer that predicts million-byte sequences, skips tokenization, and aims to model any file as raw bytes.
1:52:46ENCharge Neural Nets by Connection Length, and the Black Box Splits Into Modules You Can SeeHost Nathan LabenzMIT physicist Ziming Liu walks Nathan Labenz through BIMT, a brain-inspired training trick that sparsifies networks until you can read them by looking.
13:50ENMPT-30B: Running MosaicML’s Model Locally and Testing Its Chat VariantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews MosaicML’s June 2023 release, demonstrates a local setup, and puts the hosted chat model through an informal prompt rubric.
4:36ENTesting WizardCoder 15B as a Local Coding AssistantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs the 2023 WizardCoder model locally, testing small Python exercises and a longer Snake game.
59:28ENFrom $500,000 to $50,000: MosaicML Made Training Your Own Model a Priced ProductHost Nathan LabenzJonathan Frankle and Abhi Venigalla explain who is training custom LLMs, why extraction beats chat, and how ALiBi stretches a 65k context window.
2:00:19EN1.5 Million GPT-4 Fairy Tales Let a 33-Million-Parameter Model Out-Reason GPT-2Host Nathan LabenzTry this fill-in: Lily likes cats and dogs. She asked her mom for a dog. Mom said no, so she asked for a…
11:49ENTesting Wizard-Vicuna 30B: Responses, Reasoning, and CodeMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a model marketed as uncensored, demonstrates a 2023 cloud setup, and runs an informal collection of tests.
1:25:35ENTwo and a Half Years From 33.3% to 86.5%: Google Sent Foundation Models to Medical SchoolHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan walks Nathan Labenz through Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2: the data-light techniques, the nine-axis clinician evals, and why a high USMLE-style score is the wrong trophy.
42:18ENTen Percent of Search Is Health — and the Doctor Is Googling TooHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGoogle researcher Karan Singhal on Med-PaLM 2, the real bar for medical language models, and why medicine is a harder alignment lab than chatbots.
11:07ENTesting MosaicML MPT-7B Chat and StoryWriter in 2023Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines MPT-7B model variants, their licenses and a mixed set of local tests.
5:24ENGoogle I/O 2023: Bard, PaLM 2 and AI Across Google's ProductsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Google's 2023 AI announcements and weighs its focus on improving established products.
4:14:33ENThe Next Token Is Not a Proof: Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT and Computational TruthGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn his fourth conversation with Lex Fridman, Stephen Wolfram contrasts large language models with Wolfram|Alpha, then follows computational irreducibility from ChatGPT through observers, thermodynamics, and the three great theories of twentieth-century physics.
9:58ENHuggingChat’s 2023 Debut: Testing Writing, Reasoning and Python CodeMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries the early OpenAssistant-powered HuggingChat on writing, arithmetic, logic and a Snake game, then compares a few outputs with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. The results illustrate both promise and limitations in this small historical test.
5:47ENSam Altman on Scaling AI Models: Matthew Berman Examines OpenAI’s 2023 DirectionMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 discussion of model scaling, possible ways to improve GPT-4 and the safety priorities OpenAI described at the time.
40:25ENA 6-Billion-Parameter Clone of ChatGPT’s Core TrickHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDatabricks CTO Matei Zaharia tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Dolly learned instruction-following on fifty times less data than GPT-3 — and why he would rather look facts up than bake them into a trillion-parameter network.
6:24ENBloombergGPT: Mixing Financial and General Data for a Language ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines the 2023 finance-focused research model, its training corpus, evaluation and decision not to release weights.
7:53ENHuggingGPT: Using a Language Model to Coordinate AI ToolsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains a research system that routes multimodal tasks to specialist models using a language model as controller.
8:05ENA 2023 Guide to Running the Original GPT4All Model LocallyMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates an early CPU-based GPT4All release, its terminal installation and the resources available for fine-tuning.
6:50ENRunning LLaMA and Alpaca Locally: A 2023 Dalai TutorialMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates an early local-model setup on a MacBook Air and explains the settings that control generation.
7:55ENHow to Train a Custom Image Model in Leonardo.aiMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman walks through Leonardo.ai’s 2023 model galleries, training-set guidance, and custom model workflow, then shares results from several experiments.
1:03:29ZH → EnglishA Multimodal Paper Review: BLIP, CoCa, and BEiT-3From cleaning image–text data to unified pretraining, a guide to the architectures, objectives, and connections behind three vision–language models.
1:07:10ZH → EnglishInstructGPT: From Human Feedback to Language Model AlignmentA guide to InstructGPT’s training process, results, and limitations, from supervised fine-tuning and reward modeling to PPO.
3:28:47ENKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
2:10:08ENGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
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