to be able to introduce Alec Radford Alec Radford is a research scientist at open the eye alec has pioneered many of the latest advances in AI for natural language processing you might be familiar already with GPT and GPT to which Alec led those efforts at open AI and of course earlier in the semester we covered BC GN which was the first Gann incarnation that could start generating realistic looking images and that was also led by Alex it's a real honor to have Alec with us today and yeah now Mike please take it away from here