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Attention: Language can be processed in parallel

The Transformer paper presents an attention-based architecture for sequence processing. It is a methodological building block of later language and multimodal models.

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RESEARCH NOTE / 2017Grundlage

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Source and version

Vaswani et al. · Attention Is All You Need · Publikations-/Bezugsjahr 2017. Recherchiert am 12.11.2026.

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AI & Agents / Contrary finding / 2025

When AI makes work take longer: METR's contrary finding ↗

In a randomised trial with 16 experienced developers and 246 tasks, early-2025 AI tools increased completion time by 19%. Participants perceived their benefit much more favourably.

METR · Randomised trial
KI & Agenten / Methodik / 2026

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METR describes a follow-up experiment in February 2026. Evidence of faster work is difficult to interpret due to selection of participants and tasks as well as problems with time measurement.

METR · Methodenupdate 24.02.2026