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#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Power of the Transformer
The power of the transformer is that it has built in what we call an inductive bias of attention. You're just thinking, what comes next? And it's almost hypothesis-driven. So if I'm thinking the next word that I write is cat or dog,. The way the transformer works almost philosophically is it has these two hypotheses. Is it going to be cat or is itGoing to be dog? It says, OK, if it's cat, I'm going to look for certain words. Not necessarily cat, although cat is an obvious word you would look in the past to see whether it makes more sense to output cat or dog. Then it does some very deep computation over
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