Transformer

A transformer converts alternating current to direct current for use in electronics.

A transformer explosion at an electrical facility illuminated the New York City skyline in a blaze of blue light Thursday night.

That's a transformer.

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.

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.

“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.