How Does Transformers, explained: Understand the model behind GPT, BERT, and T5 Work?

Transformers are like super-smart helpers who can understand and create sentences by learning from lots of examples.

Imagine you have a friend who loves to read stories. Every time they read a new story, they pay close attention to how the words fit together, like pieces of a puzzle. Over time, they get really good at predicting what word comes next in a sentence. That’s kind of how Transformers work!

Transformers learn by reading many sentences and figuring out which words are important and how they relate to each other. It's like having a big book full of different stories, and your friend reads them all to get really good at understanding new ones.

Once they've learned from lots of examples, Transformers can help you write new sentences or even answer questions. It’s like your friend now can not only understand stories but also make up their own, maybe even finish a story for you if you leave out the ending!

So, Transformers are like smart helpers who use what they’ve learned to understand and create language, just like how you learn new words by hearing them in different sentences!