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A 2017 Google excerpt showed CNNs accounted for only 5% of datacenter neural network workload while ISCA 2016 papers focused almost exclusively on convolutional architectures

Alexander Terenin highlighted sequence modeling's greater practical weight at the time.

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So funny in hindsight that in 2017 google was screaming for people to please stop talking about CNNs

2:54 PM · May 23, 2026 View on X

Even in 2017, signs that sequence-to-sequence modeling was significantly more important than other paradigms were there.

The revolutionary impact of transformers could have been predicted from LSTM use.

Cody BlakeneyCody Blakeney@code_star

So funny in hindsight that in 2017 google was screaming for people to please stop talking about CNNs

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