The Too-small World of Artificial Intelligence
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Sergii Shelpuk
Originally published on Towards AI.
Overcrowded and overlooked parts of the AI world

I spent the last eight years as an insider of the artificial intelligence (AI) community, working for different companies and in various roles. At DeepTrait, with our focus on AI applications for genetic analysis and engineering, I viewed the same AI community from a very different angle. Here, I relay my perceptions of AI from both inside and outside points of view.
The success of AlexNet at the ImageNet competition in 2012 foretold a rebirth of neural networks and the beginning of the new exciting cycle within the field. I became involved with machine learning (ML) in 2011, right before the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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