Milestones on the line · PERCEPTION

Deep learning

Computers learned to tell what is in a picture from examples rather than from hand-written rules — the way a child does.

Convolutional nets beat humans at image recognition. Machines learned to see — the starting point of the modern AI wave.

StatusPASSED
TypeMilestones on the line
Marker2012
What exists today7

Researched

2009

ImageNet

14 million labelled images — the fuel without which AlexNet could not exist.

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2012

AlexNet

ImageNet error collapses — the GPU training era begins.

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2014

Adversarial networks

GANs: machines start convincingly generating, not just recognising.

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2015

ResNet

Residual connections make hundred-layer networks trainable.

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2016

AlphaGo

Beats Lee Sedol: search plus reinforcement learning.

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In progress

сейчас

Vision as a component

Recognition stopped being a product of its own and became a built-in function of large models.

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Distant horizons

впереди

Perception without labels

Learning from raw camera and sensor streams with no labelled examples at all.

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Milestones on the line
To the line

Track the line as it moves

Once a week: which branches advanced, what unlocked, and what turned out to be overstated.