Quanta Traces the Origins of Attention and Asks If It Defines Intelligence

Quanta Magazine published a long-form piece tracing the history of the attention mechanism, from Dzmitry Bahdanau's 2014 breakthrough in machine translation to the question of whether attention constitutes the mathematical basis of cognition.

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