Building Your Own Songwriter: Write a Song Like Ed-Sheeran With nanoGPT
Last Updated on June 28, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Lan Chu
Originally published on Towards AI.
Quickly train a baby GPT to generate Ed Sheeran-style music.

Ed Sheeran teaching baby GPT how to compose cheesy love songs. Image generated with Dall-E 2.
Recently I watched the tutorial Let’s build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out by Andrej Kapathy, in which he walks through the process of constructing a baby GPT model, also known as nanoGPT, from the ground up and explains what is going on under the hood and what is at the core of chatGPT.
If you are new to the transformer-based language model and you just want to get your feet to the door, then you are in luck because it is super simple with… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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