This article explains well why we need attention: https://jalammar.github.io/vis...

		GaggiX on Feb 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Understanding and coding the self-attention mechan... This article explains well why we need attention: https://jalammar.github.io/visualizing-neural-machine-transl..., and also how it was developed.

those animations are beautiful!