Tag: #neural-network
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AlphaFold wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One day after AI took the physics prize, the 2024 Chemistry Nobel honored AlphaFold, the DeepMind model that predicts protein structures, and computational protein design.
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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to neural networks
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational work on artificial neural networks, the machinery behind today's AI.
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AlexNet: the night deep learning came back (2012)
A deep neural network trained on two gaming GPUs crushed the ImageNet benchmark and ended a long winter for neural networks almost overnight.
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The first AI winter: when the hype froze (1974–1980)
The Lighthill Report, DARPA cuts, and the perceptron backlash drained funding from neural networks and overambitious AI, setting the stage for a decade of scepticism.
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Rosenblatt's perceptron: the machine that learned (1958)
Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron was the first machine to learn from experience, celebrated by the press, attacked by critics, and vindicated decades later.