GPU Secret Weapon for Convolutional Neural Networks
Chapter 1

How nature inspired digital eyes

Chapter 2

The math of sliding windows

Chapter 3

The great ImageNet breakthrough

Chapter 4

Computer vision in the wild

YOUR GOAL

Master of How computers learned to see the world

Ch 3 · The great ImageNet breakthrough
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007skaty How graphics processing units became the secret weapon of artificial intelligence

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007skaty The ImageNet Breakthrough

A million pictures, on dual graphics cards, the network sees it clear!

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Complex understanding is unlocked by the sheer scale of our experiences.

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007skaty The ImageNet competition that transformed artificial intelligence

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The secret weapon of GPUs

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The historic showdown of 2012

007skaty Neon neural network nodes glow brightly during the historic 2012 artificial intelligence showdown.

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The great ImageNet breakthrough
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007skaty Swipe images into correct groups to discover how the ImageNet breakthrough taught AI to see.

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Fun Fact

ImageNet scale: If you spent just one second looking at every image in the ImageNet database, it would take you over 160 days without sleeping.

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Glossary
alexnet (noun)
A deep convolutional neural network architecture designed for visual recognition tasks. In September 2012, this model won a prestigious image recognition contest, achieving an unprecedented 15.3% error rate.

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Gossip

Is beating human vision impressive or scary?

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Quiz

Which crowdsourcing platform did Fei-Fei Li's team use to label millions of ImageNet photos?

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007skaty Dr. Fei-Fei Li led a massive project to categorize digital images.

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Quiz

What was the average human error rate on the ImageNet image recognition test?

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007skaty Artificial intelligence surpassed human ability in recognizing images

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Quiz

How many labeled images were in the ImageNet database by 2009?

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Who led the creation of the massive ImageNet database in 2009?

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Quiz

In 2015, which Microsoft-built neural network beat the average human error rate on ImageNet?

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Quiz

What type of computer hardware, originally built for video games, made AlexNet possible?

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How many layers did the record-breaking ResNet use in 2015?

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Which neural network won the 2012 ImageNet challenge and ignited the modern AI boom?

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