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by RC_ITR 1232 days ago
>Will receive Turing Award

This is the weird thing - hopefully not! Hopefully there's even better NN models coming out every 5-10 years and we look back on transformers as 'just a phase' sort of like how we look back at RNN's (which were no less of an amazing achievement - look at the proliferation of voice assistants), as potentially obsolete technology today.

Fore example, attention is great and does a really good job of simulating context in language, but what if we come up with a clever way to simulate symbology? Then we actually are back on the path to AGI and transformers will look like child's play.

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> symbology

Off-topic, but now I have William Dafoe going "What's the 'symbology' here? The symbolism ..." in my head (from Boondock Saints).

Even thou I watched that movie 20 years ago. I will never forget that scene.