Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key? The post Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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E verything that’s swept the world since the 2022 release of ChatGPT — “the AI economy”; data centers; chatbots acting as best friends, doctors, and mathematicians; talk of existential risk — it all starts, in some sense, with an intern in a University of Montreal lab named Dzmitry Bahdanau.
It was 2014. The 23-year-old Belarusian, who had been coding competitively since he was a kid but hadn’t done academic research before, was asked to help figure out how to get a computer to translate sentences from English to French. Bahdanau was working with artificial neural networks, which had already…
