Chatter on ImageNet and Geoffrey Hinton (back propagation for deep learning). I think ImageNet *is* awesome and having a vast classified open image archive is what made Hinton's work possible. Anyone know of a #geospatial equivalent out there?

... “Pre-ImageNet, people did not believe in data,” Li said in an interview... “Everyone was working on completely different paradigms in AI with a tiny bit of data”...

#gis #rasters #imagery #geoint

[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/

How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

“You’ve taken this idea way too far,” a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.

Ars Technica