Can Neural Networks Develop Attention? Google Thinks they Can

Trying to read this article is a complicated task from the neuroscientific standpoint. At this time you are probably bombarded with emails, news, notifications on our phone, the usual annoying coworker interrupting and other distractions that cause your brain to spin on many directions. In order to read this tiny article or perform many other cognitive tasks, you need to focus, you need attention. Attention is a cognitive skill that is pivotal to the formation of knowledge. However, the dynamics of attention have remained a mystery to neuroscientists for centuries and, just recently, that we have had major breakthroughs that help to explain how attention works.