{"id":106027,"date":"2025-03-24T22:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:14:15","slug":"you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhistory.org\/blog\/chm-releases-alexnet-source-code\/\">jointly released<\/a> the source code for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AlexNet\">AlexNet<\/a>, the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 by proving that &#8220;deep learning&#8221; could achieve things conventional AI techniques could not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/12\/how-neural-networks-work-and-why-theyve-become-a-big-business\/\">Deep learning<\/a>, which uses multi-layered neural networks that can learn from data without explicit programming, represented a significant departure from traditional AI approaches that relied on hand-crafted rules and features.<\/p>\n<p>The Python code, now available on CHM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/computerhistory\/AlexNet-Source-Code\">GitHub page<\/a> as open source software, offers AI enthusiasts and researchers a glimpse into a key moment of computing history. 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