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Denis Rothman
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Denis Rothman

Denis Rothman graduated from Sorbonne University and Paris-Diderot University, designing one of the very first word2matrix patented embedding and patented AI conversational agents. He began his career authoring one of the first AI cognitive Natural Language Processing (NLP) chatbots applied as an automated language teacher for Moet et Chandon and other companies. He authored an AI resource optimizer for IBM and apparel producers. He then authored an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution used worldwide.
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Step 1: Activating the GPU

We must activate the GPU to train our GPT-2 345M-parameter transformer model.

To activate the GPU, go to the Runtime menu in Notebook settings to get the most out of the VM:

Figure III.1: The GPU hardware accelerator

We can see that activating the GPU is a prerequisite for better performance that will give us access to the world of GPT transformers. So let’s now clone the OpenAI GPT-2 repository.

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Denis Rothman

Denis Rothman graduated from Sorbonne University and Paris-Diderot University, designing one of the very first word2matrix patented embedding and patented AI conversational agents. He began his career authoring one of the first AI cognitive Natural Language Processing (NLP) chatbots applied as an automated language teacher for Moet et Chandon and other companies. He authored an AI resource optimizer for IBM and apparel producers. He then authored an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution used worldwide.
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