Deep Learning 'Winter' Thaws

The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in 2012, where Alex Krizhevsky's deep convolutional neural network, AlexNet, achieved a breakthrough performance, ignited widespread interest and investment in deep learning.

Significance

This event marked a turning point for deep learning, demonstrating its immense potential and kickstarting the era of modern AI, which directly led to advancements in speech recognition that Amazon Transcribe later leveraged.