> Google researchers wrote the Attention Is All You Need paper and they're now desperately playing catchup because they couldn't convert it to any kind of produ

> Google researchers wrote the Attention Is All You Need paper and they're now desperately playing catchup because they couldn't convert it to any kind of product. This isn't true. The transformer underlied Google Translate for a long time. They just didn't monetize Google Translate heavily enough. It's still one of the best translation services out there. And its ability to translate real-time conversations has been around for years now.