Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution.

The short version

• Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key?
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What happened

Create a reading list by clicking the Read Later icon next to the articles you wish to save. I n philosophy, “qualia” refers to the subjective qualities of our experience: what it’s like for Alice to see blue or for Bob to feel delighted.

Why it matters

Qualia are “the ways things seem to us,” as the late philosopher Daniel Dennett put it.

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