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An AI model from over a decade ago sparked Nvidia’s investment in autonomous vehicles
According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AlexNet, an AI model from over a decade ago, is what sparked the company's investment in autonomous vehicles.
During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network architecture that gained widespread attention in 2012 when it won a computer image recognition contest. Designed by computer scientist Alex Krizhevsky in collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (who’d go on to found OpenAI) and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, AlexNet achieved 84.7% accuracy in an academic competition called ImageNET. Kirsten Korosec is a reporter and editor who has covered the future of transportation from EVs and autonomous vehicles to urban air mobility and in-car tech for more than a decade.
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