Ask HN: Best books on introduction to AI/LLMs?

2 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by laksmanv

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mindcrime

12 hours ago

There are a couple of new books on the topic that are slated to drop any day now, IIRC. Of what's already published, a few I'm familiar with include:

Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision: Explore Generative AI and Large Language Models with Hugging Face, ChatGPT, GPT-4V, and DALL-E 3

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1805128728/

Transformer, BERT, and GPT: Including ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683928989/

Introduction to Transformers for NLP: With the Hugging Face Library and Models to Solve Problems

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484288432

Transformers for Machine Learning: A Deep Dive

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0367767341/

Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Edition

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1098136799

EDIT:

a couple of the ones that I thought were still pending have now been released. I haven't read any of these, but they are ones that caught my eye and that I was planning to get:

Large Language Models: A Deep Dive: Bridging Theory and Practice

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3031656466

Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D4FFPFW8

Building LLM Powered Applications: Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1835462316

The "not yet released" group still includes:

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) (ships Oct. 29th)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1633437167

LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering Large Language Models from concept to production (ships Nov. 11th)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1836200072

Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation (ships ???)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1098150961