Like many breakthroughs in scientific discovery, the one that spurred an artificial intelligence revolution came from a moment of serendipity.
In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation, the AI technology behind Google Translate.
The AI researchers had been working with another colleague, Illia Polosukhin, on a concept they called “self-attention” that could radically speed up and augment how computers understand language.
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