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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 4: Checking the version of TensorFlow

The GPT-2 345M transformer model provided by OpenAI uses TensorFlow 1.x. This will lead to several warnings when running the program. However, we will ignore them and run at full speed on the thin ice of training GPT models ourselves with our modest machines.

In the 2020s, GPT models have reached 175 billion parameters, making it impossible for us to train them ourselves efficiently without having access to a supercomputer. The number of parameters will only continue to increase.

The corporate giants’ research labs, such as Facebook AI and OpenAI, and Google Research/Brain, are speeding toward super-transformers and are leaving what they can for us to learn and understand. But, unfortunately, they do not have time to go back and update all the models they share. However, we still have this notebook!

TensorFlow 2.x is the latest TensorFlow version. However, older programs can still be helpful. This is one reason why Google...

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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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