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Seven of the eight authors of the influential 2017 AI paper "Attention Is All You Need" are immigrants to the United States. The remaining author is the grandso
by danielscrubs 8mo ago
Seven of the eight authors of the influential 2017 AI paper "Attention Is All You Need" are immigrants to the United States. The remaining author is the grandson of refugees.
And the majority of them didn’t get their degrees from US universities.
No doubt Google was the catalyst though.
- vovavili 8mo agoAnd how does this claim contradict my initial statement?
- checker659 8mo agoThey're (still) Americans.
- add-sub-mul-div 8mo agoYes but the point is that anti-immigrant demagoguery is about to slow immigration and weaken our future.
- vovavili 8mo agoThat seems like a wildly irrelevant claim in the context of this conversation.
- add-sub-mul-div 8mo agoIt's direct and blatantly relevant to the discussion that the transformer was invented in America and the cited role of immigrants in that invention, resultingly showing how ending immigration will impact future innovation.