| 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 to the public, with lectures starting tomorrow (Thursdays, 4:30–5:50pm PDT) both in-person (Skilling Auditorium) and via Zoom.
- The course will feature weekly discussions with leading researchers and industry figures, covering recent Transformer/LLM architecture breakthroughs and real-world applications across domains like art generation, biology/neuroscience, and robotics.
- Lectures are recorded and made available through Stanford’s course recordings page, and the program is supported by sponsors including Modal, AGI House, and MongoDB.
- Stanford says the class has a global audience, a large YouTube viewership, and offers livestreaming/auditing options plus a 6,000+ member Discord community via the course website.
- Course details and schedule can be found on the official CS25 website: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/ .
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