“Transformers and NLP more generally are still nascent in application today but will likely be a crucial wave over the next 5 years. As the models scale and natural language understanding grows stronger one can expect the enterprise to be transformed. Much of the world of an enterprise is effectively pushing around bits of language - legal contracts, code, invoices and payments, email, sales follow ups - these are all forms of language. The ability of a machine to robustly interpret and act on information in documents will be one of the most transformative shifts since mobile or the cloud.”
– Elad Gil looks at the recent innovation in Transformers and Large Language Models.
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– Biology has analogies, not paradigms.
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