Despite the fact that the paper is named after him(AlexNet) and from my understanding they're(the 3 people named in the title)one of the reasons that Nvidia GPU became widely used for training Alex is not as popular as his peers/mentors? What happened to him?
Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#2Because those two actively self promote.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#3Seems like he might be retired.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#4Well I haven't heard of the other two either if that counts
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#5Doesn't make enough drama.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#6He likes to be away from the lime light. Here is the last interview I found: https://youtu.be/gwzwkv2hO5k
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#7The magic of AlexNet has little do with Nvidia. It’s a more fundamental breakthrough than just the compute hardware used. Further, it’s not related to Nvidia either. Instead, it showed the promise of GPGPU. It just so happens that no one at the time and arguably still has a particularly competitive GPGPU offering other than Nvidia.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#8He is working on CNN (Convolution Neural Network) while everyone else uses transformers. Furthermore, he wasn't in the OpenAI scandal with Ilya. Third, they don't publish papers at the same rate.
Ilya has 585182 citations, while Alex has 286082 (source google scholar).
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#9Well I haven't heard of the other two either if that counts
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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?
#10Well I haven't heard of the other two either if that counts
One of the other two won a Nobel prize this year, so has some broader publicity.