April 4, 2024 Steven Feng, Stanford University [https://styfeng.github.io/] Div Garg, Stanford University [https://divyanshgarg.com/] Emily Bunnapradist, Stanford University [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebunnapradist/] Seonghee Lee, Stanford University [https://shljessie.github.io/] Brief intro and overview of the history of NLP, Transformers and how they work, and their impact. Discussion about recent trends, breakthroughs, applications, and remaining challenges/weaknesses. Also discussion about AI agents. Slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oXPs3LXtIVIsVbwTyGjAWj_aWvak9c1uNC4uhkS6glk/edit?usp=sharing More about the course can be found here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/ View the entire CS25 Transformers United playlist:    • Stanford CS25 - Transformers United