The Day the Machines Started Seeing: AlexNet's Unsung AI Revolution
Before 2012, the world of computer vision felt like a maze. Engineers toiled away, painstakingly teaching computers to “see” by hand-crafting features. Imagine telling a machine, pixel by pixel, what constitutes an “edge,” then a “corner,” then a “cat.” It was slow, laborious, and frankly, not very scalable. Progress was
