075 - What is AI Attention?

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

When an AI model reads a sentence, it doesn't treat every word as equally important. This episode explains attention, the mechanism that lets a model decide which parts of its context deserve more weight when computing what comes next, and one of the central ideas behind every modern Transformer-based language model. The episode walks through the basic calculation using three learned representations: query, key, and value. A query represents what a token is looking for, a key represents what another token offers for matching, and a value carries the information passed...