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The speaker says the gaps he identified in 2001 concerned multilayer perceptrons rather than transformers, which had not yet been invented.
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“I mean, those were applying to multi-layer perceptions,”
“not to transformers, which hadn't been invented yet.”Play from 1:25:48Report a misattribution
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