AlexNet

“We cannot overstate the importance of this moment, not just for NVIDIA, but for, like, computer science, for technology, for business, for the world, for us staring at the screens of our phones all day every day. This was the big bang moment for artificial int…”

“Jensen did not plan Alex net or see it coming cause nobody saw Alex net coming.”

“And what these guys from Toronto did is they went out probably to their local Best Buy or equivalent in Canada. They bought two GeForce GTX-Five-Eighty's, which were the top-of-the-line cards at the time, and they wrote their algorithm, their convolutional neu…”

“I think the error rate went from mislabeling images 25% of the time to suddenly only mislabeling them 15% of the time, and that was like a huge leap over the tiny incremental progress that had been made along the way.”

“They buy two NVIDIA GeForce GTX five eighties, which were NVIDIA's top of the line gaming cards at the time. The Toronto team rewrites their neural network algorithms in CUDA, NVIDIA's programming language. They train it on these two off the shelf GTX five eig…”

“Along comes AlexNet. Its error rate was 15%. Still high, but a 10% leap from the previous best being a 25% error rate all the way down to 15 in one year. A leap like that had never happened before.”