[profchemai]

I've read this book, I don't think this was the case. I think the name was made in good-faith. It's "transformer" because it involves transformations of molecules involved in life (reactions, enzymes, metabolism). The author has used this term before 2022.

The same argument could be made for the transformer paper: hijacking a nostalgia pop-culture name to name a deep learning bi-linear operator. Many papers are guilty of this, some just become very influencial.