The 2012 origin story: how Hinton's lab, Krizhevsky and Sutskever ignited deep learning
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-12
A retelling of the deep learning dawn around 2012: neural nets were dismissed by most, while Hinton, LeCun and Bengio kept the field alive for decades. Alex Krizhevsky, a CUDA-obsessed coding genius, joined Hinton's lab; mystic student Ilya Sutskever insisted neural networks would surpass human intelligence. Hinton directed them to train a CNN on ImageNet using GPUs — SuperVision (AlexNet) — sparking the deep learning revolution. Photo shows Hinton with his students.
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