Attention mechanisms are crucial to the huge boom LLMs have recently had.
In this video you'll see a friendly pictorial explanation of how attention mechanisms work in Large Language Models.
This is the first of a series of three videos on Transformer models.
Video 1: The attention mechanism in high level (this one)
Video 2: The attention mechanism with math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtG_38Oq8o
Video 3: Transformer models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaWMOYf4ri8
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