A Journey Into the Fabulous Applications of Transformers -- Part 1

The introduction of transformers has made a huge impact on Artificial Intelligence, especially in the Natural Language Processing domain. Transformers paved way for the most awaited success of transfer learning in Natural Language Processing. As a result, many large language models came into existence, and now we are able to build beneficial applications on top of these cutting-edge models. A transformer is, in simpler language, an encoder-decoder architecture with a self-attention mechanism on both sides. The encoder block takes input and converts it into numerical form, and the decoder block takes that numerical form and converts it to text.