A co-author of Attention Is All You Need reflects on ChatGPT's surprise and Google's conservatism. Jakob Uszkoreit Credit: Jakob Uszkoreit / Getty Images In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need, which introduced the Transformer AI architecture that underpins almost all of today's high-profile generative AI models. The Transformer has made a key component of the modern AI boom possible by translating (or trans...