Connectionists: Non-technical Workshop on LLMs

[Ashwath Shetty]

I would really recommend this series from 3blue1brown
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&si=_cmDDGb10ww0uxed

And this series from andrej karpathy
https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI?si=D38_teACvbsfAaFE

-Ashwath

On Tue, 18 Mar, 2025, 08:28 David H Kirshner, <dkirsh at lsu.edu> wrote:

> I am an educator interested in the implications of LLMs for the teaching
> profession. I’ve studied the basics of ANNs to gain an understanding of how
> connectionist models simulate intelligent behavior adaptively, without a
> guiding mental model or rule system. But my exposure to ChatGPT leaves me
> baffled. If the output layer is focused on identifying the appropriate next
> word in a string of text, it shouldn’t be able to perform nearly as
> effectively as it does.
>
> Does anyone know of a workshop, seminar, or piece of writing that explains
> LLMs in a relatively non-technical way?
>
> David Kirshner
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