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Ask HN: Is there a great book for understanding LLMs?
I'm looking for a book that would help me to understand ChatGPT/Bard etc. Amazon is flooded with low quality texts and and complex, theoretical works about LLMs. I'm an experienced software developer with a broad understanding of CS, so I'm looking for something that won't hold my hand too much but also won't overwhelm me with equations. Maybe something like SICP (a wonderful book that manages complexity while keeping depth), but for LLMs.
Any suggestions?
- sk11001 3y agoNo, LLMs move fast and the people who write good technical books 1) are rare 2) take time to write them I also don't know if there is an incentive to spend a lot of time on an elaborate piece of work given how likely it is to be obsolete within 1-2 years. There's certainly incentive to look like you have written "the book" on LLMs which why the space is flooded with rushed, low quality books. The good thing is that you can learn everything you need to know without a book on the topic - papers, tutorials, videos, code repositories etc.
- houseatrielah 3y agoAndrej Karpathy: Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. We build a Generatively Pretrained Transformer (GPT), following the paper "Attention is All You Need" and OpenAI's GPT-2 / GPT-3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY
- MrCoffee7 3y agoLook at this book preview and see if it fits your needs: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Introduction_to_Large_Language_Models_fo/aqLUEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Introduction_to_Large_L...
- thebuilderjr 3y ago[flagged]
- nrivoli 3y agoHow AI Works: From Sorcery to Science Book by Ronald T Kneusel Might give you some answers
- max_ 3y agoRead Stephen Wolfram's book on ChatGPT
- mattfrommars 3y agoI guess for folks who don't want to pay, this is the material to read? https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/#top https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
- behnamoh 3y agomeanwhile, books are getting outdated thanks to LLMs. the irony...