The Revolution of AlexNet in Computer Vision

Have you ever noticed how your phone can recognize a dog, a traffic light, a face,

or even the texture of a leaf before you’ve fully unlocked the screen? Or how a self-driving

car instantly interprets the chaos of the real world—pedestrians crossing, bicycles approaching,

signs half-hidden by trees—and somehow makes sense of it all? Today,

these abilities feel completely normal. They feel like magic we’ve grown used

to. But what if I told you that just a little over a decade ago,

computers were practically blind? They couldn’t reliably tell a cat from a coffee mug in

a photograph, couldn’t decode the messy richness of real-world images, and struggled helplessly