| Tl;dr: One of Stanford's hottest AI seminar courses. We open the course to the public. Lectures start tomorrow (Thursdays), 4:30-5:50pm PDT, at Skilling Auditorium and Zoom. Talks will be recorded. Course website: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/. Interested in Transformers, the deep learning model that has taken the world by storm? Want to have intimate discussions with researchers? If so, this course is for you! Each week, we invite folks at the forefront of Transformers research to discuss the latest breakthroughs, from LLM architectures like GPT and Gemini to creative use cases in generating art (e.g. DALL-E and Sora), biology and neuroscience applications, robotics, and more! CS25 has become one of Stanford's hottest AI courses. We invite the coolest speakers such as Andrej Karpathy, Geoffrey Hinton, Jim Fan, Ashish Vaswani, and folks from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, etc. Our class has a global audience, and millions of total views on YouTube. Our class with Andrej Karpathy was the second most popular YouTube video uploaded by Stanford in 2023! Livestreaming and auditing (in-person or Zoom) are available to all! And join our 6000+ member Discord server (link on website). Thanks to Modal, AGI House, and MongoDB for sponsoring this iteration of the course. [link] [comments] |
Stanford CS 25 Transformers Course (OPEN TO ALL | Starts Tomorrow)
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- Stanford’s CS25 “Transformers” seminar course is opening enrollment to the general public, with lectures beginning tomorrow on Thursdays from 4:30–5:50pm PDT via in-person (Skilling Auditorium) and Zoom.
- The course will feature weekly talks by prominent researchers and industry leaders, covering advances in transformer/LLM architectures and broader applications such as art generation, biology/neuroscience, and robotics.
- Lectures are recorded and made available through the course recordings page, while livestreaming and auditing are offered to all attendees.
- The organizers cite a large global audience and significant prior viewership, and note a 6,000+ member Discord community for discussion.
- Sponsorship for this course iteration comes from Modal, AGI House, and MongoDB, supporting public access and continued programming.
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