How did the Attention Mechanism start an AI frenzy? | LM3

The attention mechanism is well known for its use in Transformers. But where does it come from? It's origins lie in fixing a strange problems of RNNs.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Machine Translation
2:01 Attention Mechanism
8:04 Outro

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