There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning | Hacker News
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AlexNet’s 2012 ImageNet breakthrough triggered the rapid rise of deep learning in machine learning.
Its large jump in computer vision performance pushed top imaging labs to adopt deep CNNs.
Older approaches quickly faded from state-of-the-art competition results.
The shift showed how more compute and larger curated datasets could unlock major gains.



