Editors Day highlight is artificial intelligence in graphics applications

Dr. Stephen Parker, VP of professional graphics, took the stage to give an overview of the use of artificial intelligence in graphics applications. While the first working algorithm using deep feedforward perceptrons was published around 52 years ago in 1965 by Alexey Ivakhnenko and Valentin Lapa, deep learning in graphics applications has reached a combinatorial explosion thanks to some great work that has been recently accomplished by a group of researchers at the University of Toronto. In 2012, professor Geoffrey E Hinton and two students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, entered an image recognition content to build computer vision algorithms that learned to identify millions of objects in millions of pictures. Using the most efficient algorithms at the time, the team was able to take the error rate of an average human and cut it in half. They later created a company called DNNresearch, which Google bought the following year.