transformer

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.

2. 2

   A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic…

   A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.

   • While initial reports Thursday traced the glow to a transformer explosion or a fire, Mr. McGee said there was no fire, and there were no transformers involved.
3. 3

   A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of…

   A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.

   • Transformer is a deep machine learning model based on the encoder–decoder network architecture and is used primarily in the field of NLP.
   • The transformer helped machine-learning systems improve at a much faster pace, leading directly to last year’s release of ChatGPT and the attendant boom in interest around AI. (Transformers are the “T” in ChatGPT.)
   • Privately, many at Google have bristled at criticism of its AI credentials, in particular given that it incubated the underlying technology and released it publicly in the 2017 transformers paper.
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   1. 4

      Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.

   2. 5

      A toy in the Transformers toyline which has mechanical parts that allow it to be altered…

      A toy in the Transformers toyline which has mechanical parts that allow it to be altered in appearance from its original form as a humanoid robot action figure to another form, usually a vehicle, depending on the toy.

   3. 6

      In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically…

      In the Transformers franchise, any of the alien humanoid robots that can mechanically alter their appearance, or "transform", into a vehicle, creature, or (rarely) a tool.

      • “It's like a Transformer today,” Stamm said. “It appears as one thing, then becomes another.”
      • A Transformer may be both a robot and a plane, or a robot and a car, but not both simultaneously.
      • Halloween? I dressed up as a Transformer. I dressed up as a Power Ranger. I was one of the Chipmunks for God's sake.

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