Researcher Yoav Goldberg: OpenAI wouldn't have been founded without AlexNet
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-06
In a Hebrew-language exchange with Shir Peled, NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg argued that AlexNet was definitely a turning point, and BERT a later one too — but he doesn't believe OpenAI would have been founded without AlexNet. The thread debates which moment in deep learning history truly redirected the field.
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