#AlexNet

The co-founder of OpenAI, the architect of GPT, the chief scientist who voted to fire Sam Altman and then reversed course, and the founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. The most technically gifted and most philosophically serious of the deep learning generation's leaders — and the figure whose trajectory tracks the field's own ambivalence about what it is building.

The full story of the ImageNet competition in 2012 — the weeks of training on two gaming GPUs, the submission that shocked the computer vision world, the researchers who remember exactly where they were when the results came in, and why a single paper changed the trajectory of artificial intelligence. The starting gun of the modern AI era.