THE FUTURE IS HERE

Stanford CS224N: NLP with Deep Learning | Spring 2024 | Lecture 1 – Intro and Word Vectors

For more information about Stanford’s online Artificial Intelligence programs visit: https://stanford.io/ai

This lecture covers:
1. The course (10 mins)
2. Human language and word meaning (15 mins)
3. Word2vec introduction (15 mins)
4. Word2vec objective function gradients (25 mins)
5. Optimization basics (5 mins)
6. Looking at word vectors (10 mins or less)

Key learning: The (astounding!) result that word meaning can be represented rather
well by a (high-dimensional) vector of real numbers

To learn more about enrolling in this course visit: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/cs224n-natural-language-processing-deep-learning

To follow along with the course schedule and syllabus visit: hhttps://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs224n/cs224n.1246/

Professor Christopher Manning
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science
Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)