# Week 1 - General Introduction

#### This week you will...

* get all details about the structure and form of the course.
* get to know your fellow course participants.
* discuss the general types of training large language models.
* discuss current sources for staying up-to-date.

#### Learning Resources

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* [Hugging Face NLP course](https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/1)
* [YouTube channel from Yannic Kilcher](https://www.youtube.com/@YannicKilcher)

#### Until next week you should...

* [x] decide on a project.
* [x] watch [Creating your own ChatGPT: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXevvEF3QVI\&t=418s) from Niels Rogge (1 hour).
* [x] note at least one question on the video above.
* [x] watch the four videos of the [Rasa Algorithm Whiteboard on Transformers and Attention](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGTUuEx3GkA) (Part 1 to Part 4; about 50 minutes in total) if the transformers architecture is new to you.