[danielscrubs]

Seven 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.

[checker659]

They're (still) Americans.

[add-sub-mul-div]

Yes but the point is that anti-immigrant demagoguery is about to slow immigration and weaken our future.

[vovavili]

That seems like a wildly irrelevant claim in the context of this conversation.

[add-sub-mul-div]

It'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.

[vovavili]

And how does this claim contradict my initial statement?