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U.S. literally invented the transformer just a couple years ago. I would argue that it is the rest of the world is lagging.
by vovavili 9mo ago
U.S. literally invented the transformer just a couple years ago. I would argue that it is the rest of the world is lagging.
- danielscrubs 9mo agoSeven of the eight authors of the influential 2017 AI paper "Attention Is All You Need" are immigrants to the United States. The remaining author is the grandson of refugees. And the majority of them didn’t get their degrees from US universities. No doubt Google was the catalyst though.
- vovavili 9mo agoAnd how does this claim contradict my initial statement?
- checker659 9mo agoThey're (still) Americans.
- add-sub-mul-div 9mo agoYes but the point is that anti-immigrant demagoguery is about to slow immigration and weaken our future.
- vovavili 9mo agoThat seems like a wildly irrelevant claim in the context of this conversation.
- add-sub-mul-div 9mo agoIt's direct and blatantly relevant to the discussion that the transformer was invented in America and the cited role of immigrants in that invention, resultingly showing how ending immigration will impact future innovation.