Tag: #nlp

• Watson on Jeopardy!: when a machine won the quiz (2011)

  2011-02-16

  HistorySystems

  In February 2011 IBM's Watson defeated the two most successful Jeopardy! champions in a televised match. The system showed how far natural language processing had come, and IBM then set out to sell the technology to medicine and business.

• "Attention is all you need": the Transformer arrives (2017)

  2017-06-12

  HistoryResearch

  A 2017 paper replaced the sequential machinery of earlier networks with pure attention. The Transformer became the architecture behind almost every large language model since.