He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save It

🌈 Abstract

The article discusses Illia Polosukhin's vision for "user-owned AI" as an alternative to big companies determining the future of artificial intelligence.

🙋 Q&A

[01] Illia Polosukhin's Vision for "User-Owned AI"

1. What is Illia Polosukhin's alternative vision for the future of AI?

• Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence.
• His alternative vision is for "user-owned AI" which is already starting to take shape.

2. How did Polosukhin's collaboration with Jacob Uszkoreit lead to a breakthrough in AI?

• In 2016, Polosukhin had lunch with his colleague Jacob Uszkoreit, who suggested trying a technique called self-attention.
• This 8-person collaboration ultimately resulted in a 2017 paper called "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the concept of transformers as a way to supercharge artificial intelligence.
• This paper changed the world of AI.