The 2012 AlexNet network, built by Hinton's students Krizhevsky and Sutskever, was dramatically better than existing computer vision systems at object recognition, which opened the floodgates so that from that point neural networks took over and 'AI' now means neural networks rather than logic.
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Geoffrey HintonEvidence Quote
“From that point on, they really took over. And now when you say AI, what people mean by AI is neural networks. It's not logic.”
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Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton— The Royal InstitutionCreated: 6/18/2026, 2:17:54 PM
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