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Ha! > Notably, Aidan used to work at Google, where he was one of the authors of a paper called “Attention is all you need” that described transformers and real
by smarm52 2y ago
Ha!
> Notably, Aidan used to work at Google, where he was one of the authors of a paper called “Attention is all you need” that described transformers and really kicked off the LLM revolution in AI.
"Here's Aidan one of the geniuses that pioneered the modern AI landscape" gushes the article.
Then:
> It happened later that we started to see the community pick up the architecture and start to apply it to way more stuff than we had ever contemplated when building it.
And the academic community did all the work.
> so it’s very easy to personify the technology. You expect from the tech what you expect from a human.
> the technology is so similar to what it feels like to interact with a human, people overestimate it or trust it more than they should.
Saying the quiet part out loud. How to sucker in investors and rich people into investing into startups that promise the moon? Point to the natural language interface.