AlexNet: When Machines Learned to See
The setting was the ImageNet Challenge, an annual contest designed to measure how well computers could recognize images. The rules were simple. Each system received millions of photographs showing everyday objects such as dogs, bicycles, teapots, birds and chairs. For each image, the program had to guess what object appeared in the picture. Success was […]
AlphaFold: A Billion Years at Warp Speed
Science doesn’t move this fast. At least it didn’t until AlphaFold arrived.