alexnet-2012-imagenet-deep-learning-revolution

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AlexNet (2012) by Krizhevsky, Sutskever, and Hinton won ImageNet by a large margin over shallow methods and is widely considered the start of the deep learning revolution in computer vision

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• IN compute-scaling-drove-dl-revolution — Compute scaling was a major factor in the deep learning revolution: OpenAI measured a 300,000x increase in compute from AlexNet (2012) to AlphaZero (2017), GPUs displaced CPUs as the dominant training hardware by 2019, and AlexNet's GPU-based ImageNet win helped catalyze the modern AI boom. Whether compute scaling was more important than algorithmic innovation is not established by these data points alone.
• IN deep-learning-superhuman-vision-from-alexnet — AlexNet's 2012 ImageNet victory is widely considered the start of the deep learning revolution in computer vision. Following this, deep learning surpassed prior computer vision methods on benchmarks for classification, segmentation, and optical flow, and exceeded human-level performance on specific visual recognition tasks such as traffic sign recognition (2011) and face recognition (2014).