2012's AlexNet, Not Transformers, Marked the True Start of the AI Era
ShirPeled · x · 2026-10-06
In a debate over whether pre-Transformer AI was more interesting, a researcher points back to September 2012, when AlexNet launched and is widely seen as the start of the current AI era — the same year the predicted Maya apocalypse famously failed to arrive.
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