But have you ever wondered how we got here?
The credit largely goes to a groundbreaking neural internet from 2012 called AlexNet.
Now, after years of negotiations, the original source code has finally been released to the public.
That’s thanks to a collaborative effort between theComputer History Museumand Google.
By 2012, the theory behind neural networks including the pivotal backpropagation algorithm had been around for decades.
Initiatives like Stanford’s ImageNet project and Nvidia’s CUDA GPU programming finally provided those crucial elements.
Each was essential to the other.
Eventually, the AlexNet paper was presented at a 2012 computer vision conference.
His prediction proved accurate.
After AlexNet’s unveiling, neural networks quickly became the foundation of nearly all cutting-edge computer vision research.
From that moment, progress accelerated rapidly.
Understandably, open-sourcing such a historically significant piece of code was no simple task.
