Myth vs Reality — The ANOC Edition

Dean on Instagram: "For a decade, the entire AI world agreed: Neural networks are dead ❌ Too slow. Too unstable. Impossible to scale. September 2012. ImageNet Competition. Every major AI lab competing. All stuck at 74% accuracy for 10 years. Then 3 researchers from Toronto walk in: - Geoffrey Hinton - Alex Krizhevsky - Ilya Sutskever They brought an idea everyone abandoned: Neural networks. Everyone said it wouldn't work. They built an 8-layer network. Trained it on gaming GPUs (nobody else thou