[Verse 1]
Back in twenty-seventeen, Vaswani dropped the bomb
Self-attention mechanisms, parallelization strong
No recurrence needed, just queries, keys, and values
Transformer architecture rewrote all the rules
[Chorus]
Six papers carved the neural landscape
Attention, BERT, and GPT reshape
RAG retrieves while scaling laws define
These milestones mark the paradigm design
Remember every year, every breakthrough clear
The foundation stones of what we engineer
[Verse 2]
BERT came bidirectional, masked language modeling
Pre-training both directions, context surrounding
Twenty-nineteen showed us how to understand deep
Fine-tuning downstream tasks, semantic knowledge steep
[Chorus]
Six papers carved the neural landscape
Attention, BERT, and GPT reshape
RAG retrieves while scaling laws define
These milestones mark the paradigm design
Remember every year, every breakthrough clear
The foundation stones of what we engineer
[Verse 3]
GPT-3 in twenty-twenty, few-shot learning born
Hundred seventy-five billion parameters worn
In-context demonstration, no gradient descent
Emergent capabilities from scale's ascent
[Bridge]
InstructGPT brought human feedback loops
RLHF alignment, breaking old groups
RAG connected knowledge bases wide
Retrieval augmentation, facts collide
[Verse 4]
Scaling laws revealed compute optimal ratios
Chinchilla's insight, parameter scenarios
Training tokens matter more than model size
Kaplan's mathematics opened researcher's eyes
[Chorus]
Six papers carved the neural landscape
Attention, BERT, and GPT reshape
RAG retrieves while scaling laws define
These milestones mark the paradigm design
Remember every year, every breakthrough clear
The foundation stones of what we engineer
[Outro]
From attention mechanisms to instruction following
These papers built the future we're swallowing
Twenty-seventeen to twenty-twenty-two
The roadmap that guides me and you