Sweeping in scope and grounded in real human stories. What does a pair of enterprising grad students entering a prestigious research competition have to do with combating climate change or reducing systemic racism? According to Tim Kilpatrick, almost everything. In 2012, when Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever entered the ImageNet contest, AI was a familiar concept, but neural networks had few practical uses, and no contestant had tried them before. The work of Alex, Ilya, and their adviser Geoffrey Hinton did more than win a contest; it proved that a machine taught to learn its own patterns could outperform… Read more: Strategy and AI by Tim Kilpatrick