AI Architecture

In 2018, Google researchers published a landmark paper titled “BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding” (Devlin et al.). This research fundamentally shifted the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Before BERT, models processed text sequentially from left to right or right to left. BERT introduced a method to train language representations that look at the context from both directions simultaneously.

In 2017, the artificial intelligence landscape changed forever with the publication of the seminal paper “Attention Is All You Need” by Vaswani et al. The paper introduced the Transformer, a revolutionary neural network architecture that discarded recurrence (RNNs, LSTMs) entirely, opting instead to process sequential data in parallel using the Self-Attention Mechanism.