> Transformer model just trivially blowing everything else out of the water
no, this is the winners rewriting history. Transformer style encoders are now applied to lots and lots of disciplines but they do not "trivially" do anything. The hype re-telling is obscuring the facts of history. Specifically in human language text translation, "Attention is All You Need" Transformers did "blow others out of the water" yes, for that application.
no, this is the winners rewriting history. Transformer style encoders are now applied to lots and lots of disciplines but they do not "trivially" do anything. The hype re-telling is obscuring the facts of history. Specifically in human language text translation, "Attention is All You Need" Transformers did "blow others out of the water" yes, for that application.