Early-2026 explainer reframes transformer attention: tokenized text becomes Q/K/V self-attention maps, not linear prediction.

Eight names are listed as authors on “Attention Is All You Need,” a scientific paper written in the spring of 2017. They were all Google researchers, though by then one had left the company. When the ...

The transformer, today's dominant AI architecture, has interesting parallels to the alien language in the 2016 science fiction film "Arrival." If modern artificial intelligence has a founding document ...