How AI Happened — Act 2

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How AI Happened — Act 2

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Geoffrey Hinton left the United States in 1987 because military money in AI disturbed him — a decision that accidentally made Toronto the capital of deep learning's revival. Twenty-five years later, his student Alex Krizhevsky trained AlexNet on two consumer gaming GPUs and beat the field by a margin so large it was initially assumed to be an error: 10.9 percentage points in a competition where progress was measured in fractions. This single result ended one paradigm and started another, and it happened in a bedroom, not a lab. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Google Built the Future and Lost It ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every weekday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN singularitypulse.substack.com

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