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Ask HN: Transformers is great but what's next?

1 pointsby sujayk_3311 months ago
Transformer architecture is the foundation current paradigm of AI. I agree it&#x27;s great but what&#x27;s next, do you think there should have been an innovation since then and another competitor maybe?<p>It was 2017 when the architecture was proposed and in 2024, 7 years have passed and we are heading towards &quot;Globalization&quot; as Peter Thiel says it.<p>I would love to know, how far is the next big breakthrough in this Technology that goes from 0 to 1.

5 comments

soist11 months ago
No one at the commercial AI research labs knows what they&#x27;re doing. As far as they are concerned there is nothing beyond gradient descent but it&#x27;s accepted among academic researchers that gradient descent is insufficient for creating anything truly intelligent.
beardyw10 months ago
Intelligence which can be produced biologically. It&#x27;s a whacky idea but it might just work.
purple-leafy10 months ago
I know the solution, and to find out yourself I just need your credit card number!
sk1100111 months ago
You can&#x27;t get guess these things before they happen.<p>&gt; do you think there should have been an innovation since then and another competitor maybe?<p>What does &quot;should have&quot; mean? There&#x27;s no conspiracy to suppress the development of alternative approaches, there&#x27;s no council or committee which decides these things - people would love the discover something new and amazing which is better, they just haven&#x27;t been able to do it.
arthurcolle10 months ago
probably S4 or something