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BI NMA 05: NLP and Generative Models Panel

Brain Inspired

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Is Attention a Controlled Process?

i guess my controversial take is that attention, as it's used in the context of transformers is exactly the opposite of the way that we typically think of attention in cognitive systems. My personal definition of attention is actually fr from the biology brainside iss simply deciding what information to discard. Um, and a whole bunch of things can happen really fast and parallel. I came op with this brilliant idea. He ran all those experiments. We did some analysis, and that we were like blown away, because idi work so well. Can i stop you re quick, because i i was going to ask you. Si, it was 20 14. So we got the first solterof he obtained on

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