Azeem’s Picks: Beyond Deep Learning (with Gary Marcus)
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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The Importance of ImageNet in Deep Learning
Deep learning is a major advance. The ideas in it aren't really that new, but the ability to use it practically is new. Up until about 2011, when people started using the graphics cards, deep learning wasn't really doing that well. And then Fei-Fei Li introduced this thing called ImageNet. So suddenly it was a lot more labeled data to work with. Suddenly they were new processors to do things on. And that made a huge advance in the effectiveness of the technology.
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