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Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3137" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><h3><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-transformers-take-over-artificial-intelligence-20220310/" target="_blank">Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? - Quanta Magazine</a></h3><p><strong>A simple algorithm that revolutionized how neural networks approach language is now taking on vision as well. It may not stop there.</strong></p><p></p><p>magine going to your local hardware store and seeing a new kind of hammer on the shelf. You’ve heard about this hammer: It pounds faster and more accurately than others, and in the last few years it’s rendered many other hammers obsolete, at least for most uses. And there’s more! With a few tweaks — an attachment here, a twist there — the tool changes into a saw that can cut at least as fast and as accurately as any other option out there. In fact, some experts at the frontiers of tool development say this hammer might just herald the convergence of all tools into a single device.</p><p></p><p>A similar story is playing out among the tools of artificial intelligence. That versatile new hammer is a kind of artificial neural network — a network of nodes that “learn” how to do some task by training on existing data — called a transformer. It was originally designed to handle language, but has recently begun impacting other AI domains.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3137, member: 1"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-transformers-take-over-artificial-intelligence-20220310/']Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? - Quanta Magazine[/URL][/HEADING] [B]A simple algorithm that revolutionized how neural networks approach language is now taking on vision as well. It may not stop there.[/B] magine going to your local hardware store and seeing a new kind of hammer on the shelf. You’ve heard about this hammer: It pounds faster and more accurately than others, and in the last few years it’s rendered many other hammers obsolete, at least for most uses. And there’s more! With a few tweaks — an attachment here, a twist there — the tool changes into a saw that can cut at least as fast and as accurately as any other option out there. In fact, some experts at the frontiers of tool development say this hammer might just herald the convergence of all tools into a single device. A similar story is playing out among the tools of artificial intelligence. That versatile new hammer is a kind of artificial neural network — a network of nodes that “learn” how to do some task by training on existing data — called a transformer. It was originally designed to handle language, but has recently begun impacting other AI domains. [/QUOTE]
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