When the most tenured contributor, Noam Shazeer, saw an early draft, he was surprised that his name appeared first, suggesting his contribution was paramount. 'I wasn't thinking about it,' he says.
Shazeer jokes that if he knew how famous the paper would become, he 'might have worried more about the author order.' All eight signers are now microcelebrities.
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