Veteran Windows developer Dave Plummer is back in his computer-stuffed garage, this time hoping to demystify AI by exposing its “dirty little secret.” This secret is largely revealed in the first line of the video description: “Dave uses a PDP-11 to train a real Neural Network complete with Transformers and Attention so you can see them at their most basic.” For context, the retired dev demos his 47-year-old PDP-11 system with a 6 MHz CPU and 64KB RAM. This runs a transformer model called ATTN-11 written in PDP-11 assembly language by Damien Boureille.
