Skip to content
"Intro to Large Language Models" - Andrej Karpathy's Tech Talk Learning episode artwork

Feb 13, 2025 16 min

"Intro to Large Language Models" - Andrej Karpathy's Tech Talk Learning

from Large Language Model (LLM) Talk Hosted by AI-Talk

Andrej Karpathy's talk, "Intro to Large Language Models," demystifies LLMs by portraying them as systems with two key components:a parameters file (the weights of the neural network) anda run file (the code that runs the network). The creation of these files starts with a computationally intensive training process, where a large amount of internet text is compressed into the model's parameters. The scaling laws show that LLM performance depends on the number of parameters and the amount of training data.Karpathy reviews how LLMs are evolving to incorporate external tools and multiple modalities. He presents his view of LLMs as the kernel process of an emerging operating system and also discusses the security challenges of LLMs, including jailbreak attacks, prompt injection attacks, and data poisoning.

Episode details come from the podcast's RSS feed.

Embed this episode

Ready to play

"Intro to Large Language Models" - Andrej Karpathy's Tech Talk Learning

0:00 16:45

No transcript yet.

Requests help us decide what to transcribe next.

Frequently asked questions

How long is this episode of Large Language Model (LLM) Talk?

This episode is 16 minutes long.

When was this Large Language Model (LLM) Talk episode published?

This episode was published on February 13, 2025.

Can I download this Large Language Model (LLM) Talk episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.