 Acknowledgements  There are several sources of inspiration and insight for the project that spawned this model. I'd like to recognize them up front:  * The [Microsoft DialoGPT-Medium](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/DialoGPT-medium?text=Hi.) model page was very insightful for getting stated.  * Lynn Zheng [r3dhummingbird](https://huggingface.co/r3dhummingbird/DialoGPT-medium-joshua?text=Hey+my+name+is+Thomas%21+How+are+you%3F) put together one heck of an awesome tutorial on how to fine-tune GPT-2 for conversational purposes. I used her tutorial as a starting point for this project. Check out the [Github repo here.](https://github.com/RuolinZheng08/twewy-discord-chatbot)  * [This article](https://towardsdatascience.com/make-your-own-rick-sanchez-bot-with-transformers-and-dialogpt-fine-tuning-f85e6d1f4e30) was also very insightful. Written by Rostyslav Neskorozhenyi.  * From a lineage standpoint, it looks like Nathan Cooper kicked this whole thing off with this [notebook.](https://github.com/ncoop57/i-am-a-nerd/blob/master/_notebooks/2020-05-12-chatbot-part-1.ipynb)  * Noah Gift figured out a few of the big pieces in [this repository.](https://github.com/nogibjj/hugging-face-tutorial-practice)  * I'd be remiss if I also didn't mention Hugging Face's own support [documentation](https://huggingface.co/transformers/v2.0.0/examples.html