But what is a GPT? 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson) · Video
The best visual introduction: how rows of numbers turn into language — step by step, with no formula ballast. If you want to actually see what a transformer does, start here.
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT Andrej Karpathy · Video, 3½ h
Three and a half hours from the former Tesla AI lead, opening up the whole build of a language model — from raw text to finished assistant. Demanding, but explained for non-experts. One for the weekend.

To the source

Attention Is All You Need Vaswani et al., 2017 · Paper
The 2017 paper that introduced the transformer architecture — the “T” in GPT. Technical, but worth seeing the original at least once. This is where what this site writes about began.

Society & ethics

Encyclical Magnifica humanitas Pope Leo XIV, 2026
The first encyclical by Leo XIV, signed on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum: artificial intelligence and safeguarding the human person. Don't bundle technology into a few hands, don't let it be “armed” — a large, serious voice in the debate.
Antiqua et nova Vatican · Note, 2025
The 2025 note from two Roman dicasteries that preceded the encyclical — not a papal circular but a curial teaching document: 117 paragraphs on the relationship between artificial and human intelligence. AI as a tool, not a substitute for the mind.
Atlas of AI Kate Crawford · Book, 2021
The counterpoint to tech enthusiasm: AI as “extraction” — from energy and raw materials through invisible click-work to our data. A material, political view the ethics debate needs.

EU AI Act — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 European Union, 2024
The EU's AI law in its official wording (English version). Dry but binding — and the frame everything here moves within.our article on it

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