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Andrej Karpathy says AlexNet marked a dramatic shift in AI that reoriented the field toward training neural networks.
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“this was a niche little subject on the side that's kind of maybe like the first like dramatic sort of seismic shift that came with the AlexNet and so on”
“I would say like Alex and sort of reoriented everyone and everyone started to train neural networks,”Play from 3:54Report a misattribution
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