{"id":171253,"date":"2023-09-04T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/transformers-revolutionized-ai-what-will-replace-them"},"modified":"2023-09-04T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T08:26:10","slug":"transformers-revolutionized-ai-what-will-replace-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/transformers-revolutionized-ai-what-will-replace-them","title":{"rendered":"Transformers Revolutionized AI. What Will Replace Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RI35E5ewBuI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If modern artificial intelligence has a founding document, a sacred text, it is Google\u2019s 2017 research paper \u201cAttention Is All You Need.\u201d This paper introduced a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer, which has gone on to revolutionize the field of AI over the past half-decade.<\/p>\n<p>The generative AI mania currently taking the world by storm can be traced directly to the invention of the transformer. Every major AI model and product in the headlines today\u2014ChatGPT, GPT-4, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, and so on\u2014is built using transformers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Transformers are remarkably general-purpose: while they were initially developed for language translation specifically, they are now advancing the state of the art in domains ranging from computer vision to robotics to computational biology.<\/p>\n<p>In short, transformers represent the undisputed gold standard for AI technology today.<\/p>\n<p>But no technology remains dominant forever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/transformers-revolutionized-ai-what-will-replace-them\">Continue reading \u201cTransformers Revolutionized AI. What Will Replace Them?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If modern artificial intelligence has a founding document, a sacred text, it is Google\u2019s 2017 research paper \u201cAttention Is All You Need.\u201d This paper introduced a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer, which has gone on to revolutionize the field of AI over the past half-decade. The generative AI mania currently taking the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}