Beginning of LLMs (Transformers) : The Introduction

This trailer introduces Season 5 of the Adapticx Podcast, where we begin the story of large language models. After tracing AI’s evolution from rules to neural networks and attention, this season focuses on the breakthrough that changed everything: the Transformer.

We preview how “Attention Is All You Need” reshaped language modeling, enabled large-scale training, and led to early models like BERT, GPT-1, GPT-2, and T5. We also introduce scaling laws—the insight that performance grows predictably with data, compute, and model size.

This episode sets the direction for the season and explains why the Transformer marks the start of the modern LLM era.

This episode is part of the Adapticx AI Podcast. Listen via the link provided or search “Adapticx” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or most podcast platforms.

Sources and Further Reading

Additional references and extended material are available at:

https://adapticx.co.uk