CNBC July 6, 2024
Aidan Gomez was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he helped co-author the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that conceptualized the transformer and eventually kicked off the generative artificial intelligence boom.
“There’s no one in the field who was around back then working who could have foreseen where we are in terms of technological capability,” Gomez told CNBC in a recent interview. “The models are doing stuff that I personally thought maybe I’d see at the end of my career, maybe in like 40 years.”
Gomez, who was a computer science student at the University of Toronto at the time of his internship, left Google in 2021 to co-found Cohere, an AI startup that’s backed by Nvidia...
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