Two Gaming Chips in a Bedroom Sparked the AI Boom | THE THINKING MACHINE Pt 2

Business Onion · 2:18

By 2012, Geoffrey Hinton's idea — a machine that learns like a brain — had been right but trapped for thirty years, waiting for computers fast enough to prove it. Then two of his graduate students, Ilya Sutskever and Alex Krizhevsky, entered a contest called ImageNet, trained a neural network in a bedroom on two ordinary Nvidia gaming cards, and cut the error rate almost in half — a leap no one had ever seen. As Hinton put it, that was the moment the dam broke. Within weeks, Google, Microsoft, Baidu, and a tiny London startup were in a secret auction to buy three people who had built no product at all. Follow for Part 3 — THE BRAIN GRAB. Some scenes are cinematic reconstructions of documented events. All quotes, dates, and figures are verified. #AI #ChatGPT #Nvidia #deeplearning #artificialintelligence #imagenet #tech #documentary