Can confirm that hardware (and data!) are the two main culprits here. The actual learning algorithms haven’t changed much since the mid 1980s, but computers have gotten many times faster, GPUs are 30-100x faster still, and the amount of data has similarly increased by several orders of magnitude.
Can confirm that hardware (and data!) are the two main culprits here. The actual learning algorithms haven’t changed much since the mid 1980s, but computers have gotten many times faster, GPUs are 30-100x faster still, and the amount of data has similarly increased by several orders of magnitude.