The Transformer: A Magical Breakthrough
Karpathy highlighted the Transformer as a pivotal innovation in the field of AI. Developed by Google in their 2017 research paper "Attention is aLL You Need," the Transformer represents a significant departure from previous neural network architectures like LSTMs. According to Karpathy, the Transformer is a "beautiful blob of tissue" that can be applied to a wide range of tasks, provided it has access to the right data.