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In 2012 Krizhevsky purchased two Nvidia GeForce GTX 580s. He combined the CUDA tech on the GPU's with neural network tech to develop the first artificial neural network.
Prior to this both Nvidia's CUDA and neural networks were considered failures. It was Krizhevsky who combined the speed of CUDA and the learning ability of neural nets to produce modern AI.
Of interest is that Nvidia added the cost of CUDA tech to the price of their GPUs so that in effect gamers funded the tech.
Also, please note that transformer tech also achieved a breakthrough by combining CUDA tech and neural nets, using Krizhevsky's original idea of combining both techs.
A Japanese documentary team made a film about AI and soon realised from interviews that a key person was missing. They tracked Krizhevsky down to a barely furnished appartment over a Vietnamese restaurant in San Franscisco. He no longer works in AI and is cooking up something else on his laptop.
Wiki link to Krizhevsky:
en.wikipedia.org
Wiki link to AlexNet:
en.wikipedia.org
Wiki link to CUDA tech:
en.wikipedia.org
In 2012 Krizhevsky purchased two Nvidia GeForce GTX 580s. He combined the CUDA tech on the GPU's with neural network tech to develop the first artificial neural network.
Prior to this both Nvidia's CUDA and neural networks were considered failures. It was Krizhevsky who combined the speed of CUDA and the learning ability of neural nets to produce modern AI.
Of interest is that Nvidia added the cost of CUDA tech to the price of their GPUs so that in effect gamers funded the tech.
Also, please note that transformer tech also achieved a breakthrough by combining CUDA tech and neural nets, using Krizhevsky's original idea of combining both techs.
A Japanese documentary team made a film about AI and soon realised from interviews that a key person was missing. They tracked Krizhevsky down to a barely furnished appartment over a Vietnamese restaurant in San Franscisco. He no longer works in AI and is cooking up something else on his laptop.
Wiki link to Krizhevsky:
Alex Krizhevsky - Wikipedia
Wiki link to AlexNet:

AlexNet - Wikipedia
Wiki link to CUDA tech:

CUDA - Wikipedia
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