Self Attention

topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes

Latent Space No Priors

3 statements about Self Attention, every show

LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yi Tay: The Architecture That Achieves AGI Will Still Be a Transformer
“It will be a transformer, I think. Like people, it depends on what you call it, but I think unless the paradigm shifts completely, which is, I mean, as a scientist, you cannot like completely say no to like that, this would never happen. But my feeling is that…”
Yi Tay Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 46:26 Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
Yi Tay: Efficient attention research consistently failed to eliminate self-attention
“There was this whole big era, which I was also involved in this era, where people try to like undermine the attention as much as possible. Like they try to remove it, simplify it, make it efficient, like this whole Like, efficient attention era. At the end of …”
Yi Tay Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 47:28 Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
NO PRIORS Insight
Self-Attention Brought GPU Parallelism to Sequence Modeling
“The insight here was, Hey, you can use the same attention thing to like, look back at the past of the sequence that you're trying to produce. And you know, the beauty is that the, that It runs great on on GPUs and CPUs, and it's kind of parallel to, like, how …”
Noam Shazeer Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 6:21 No Priors Ep. 12 | With Noam Shazeer

← every entity, every show

Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, thousands of episodes across every show transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.