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Attention Primer

Data Skeptic

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Machine Learning Needs Attention Mechanisms

Machine learning is trying to emulate the behavior of a human brain. But it can't remember important things in a sentence, but forget things that don't matter so much. For example, what was the first word i said when i started the show? With you. This one i don't remember. Why not? Haven't you been paying attention? Well, like you said, it's different than committing to memory. Ari: It isn't that for sure, machine learning has to do attention the way the human brain does it,. He says sometimes machines will do things in the same manner that humans do it and other times they can do it in a totally different manner.

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