AlexNet, a groundbreaking neural network developed in 2012 by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton, has been released in source code form by the Computer History Museum in collaboration with Google. This model significantly advanced the field of AI by demonstrating a massive leap in image recognition capabilities.
The article discusses the ability of AI systems to interpret images, particularly focusing on the limits and reliability of these systems in answering questions about visual content. The author, Dan Russell, challenges readers to evaluate how well AI can identify objects in provided images and what kinds of questions can be reliably answered by AI.