ChatGPT and beyond: The transformer revolution

Other, August 24, 2023

Other, August 24, 2023

Let’s face the facts: ChatGPT is here to stay. It’s popularity is skyrocketing, and so is the multitude of use cases. But do you know why it’s so good? What the underlying technology is?

Our speaker Zuzanna Dubanowska initially presented this topic in late June, delivering the talk in person at our Copenhagen office. With the AI landscape constantly evolving and progressing rapidly, we have taken the initiative to capture these dynamic shifts. We invite you to view the webinar, where we have reexamined and revitalized the content to faithfully represent the present reality

Our journey begins with human attention and how applying it to AI models gave birth to Transformers, the most powerful class of algorithms yet, and changed the course of AI forever. We take a deep dive into the fascinating world of Transformers and decouple the WHYs, WHATs and HOWs: Why are they so good? What are their capabilities? And How close can they bring us to Artificial General Intelligence? We then revisit ChatGPT, address why it “went viral”, where it’s placed in the landscape of today’s AI together with other successful attention-based models and explore these models to truly get a feel of the Transformer revolution.