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Syrians celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad after five decades of dynastic rule
So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs
Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn
Japan’s rice stocks drop to lowest level in decades amid tourist boom and poor crop yields
Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify
The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous system has risen dramatically over the past three decades, with 43% of the world’s population – 3.4 billion people – affected in 2021