What is
Transformer
The architecture under every AI chat in use today. Before it, models read text one word at a time and lost the thread over long passages. The transformer reads everything at once and works out, for each word, which other words in the text matter to it. That is what “attention” means. Published by Google researchers in 2017, and the reason ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini exist.
Attention Is All You Need – why transformers changed artificial intelligence
It was transformers that solved a problem which had held back natural language processing systems for more than two decades. Classic neural networks did well on tasks where all the data was…