Fun AI trivia: the 2012 Mayan apocalypse was less than three weeks before AlexNet
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-18
A commenter notes the much-hyped 2012 Mayan apocalypse came within less than three weeks of AlexNet being published at NeurIPS — the doomsday didn't arrive, but the deep learning revolution did.
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