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If you've used ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any modern Large Language Model, you've indirectly interacted with one of the most influential ideas in machine learning:
Attention.
Before attention mechanisms, language models struggled with long documents, complex reasoning, and maintaining context over extended conversations. After attention, models suddenly became capable of writing code, summarizing books, translating languages, and holding coherent multi-turn discussions.
The famous 2017 paper introducing Transformers was titled:
