history will record sam altman as the bold visionary who in 2022 introduced the world to advanced ai. we will also praise ashish vaswani for being the lead author and principal theorist behind the seminal 2017 "attention is all you need" paper, without which today's chat-gpt would not exist. however, the person to whom our world owes the greatest gratitude for what is poised to become the greatest technological, social and economic revolution of all time is dzmitry bahdanau.
bahdanau's 2014 paper, "neural machine translation by jointly learning to align and translate" revealed to our world the promise of attention mechanisms. without his pioneering discovery, we would very probably still be awaiting our ai revolution.
why is knowing bahdanau's, (and also vaswani's) contributions important? to the english-speaking world, those names don't sound very familiar or, in bahdanau's case, smoothly roll off the tongue. it's much easier for us to recognize geoffrey hinton as the "godfather" of ai for his pioneering work on artificial neural nets. his name is much easier to spell and pronounce, haha.
but the transformer technology that bahdanau discovered took ai to a categorically more advanced level. bahdanau's genius easily stands alongside that of newton, darwin and einstein. it is important to know his name because he is most probably not done introducing our world to brilliant, world-changing, ideas.
dzmitry bahdanau; a person our world will soon enough fully understand improved our world more profoundly than any person before...and most probably after.
learn about him. support his work.
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