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Latent Space · November 15, 2023 · 58m
The Busy Person's Intro to LLMs with Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy provides a comprehensive overview of how LLMs work, what they can and cannot do, and where the field is heading. He frames LLMs as a new kind of operating system that will mediate between humans and all digital information.
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Karpathy argues that the chatbot interface is a misleading frame for LLMs. A better mental model is the operating system: LLMs will mediate between humans and all digital tools, data, and services the same way Windows mediates between users and hardware.
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The most important bottleneck in LLM improvement is not compute or algorithms but high-quality training data — data is the new oil
Karpathy argues that we are approaching the limits of publicly available internet text for training LLMs. Future improvements will come from curating higher-quality data, generating synthetic data, and developing new training paradigms that learn more efficiently from less data.Was this useful?