The AI Reading Series · From Perceptrons to Agents · Lecture 2: From Neurons to Machines That Talk: How Connectionism Conquered Language
Part 2 of the AI reading series. The previous post ended with AlexNet's 2012 earthquake in image recognition. This one tells the road to language: how researchers turned words into vectors, taught networks to read sequences, discovered attention — and why, in 2017, eight Google researchers decided attention was all you need.





