How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?
How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days?
They had the AI models of those days.
That's cool, didn't know AI models where a thing in those days. Are they comparable (maybe more crude?) to nowadays tech? Like, did they use machineearning? As far as I remember there were not much dedicated AI accelerating hardware pieces. Maybe a beefy GPU for neural network purposes? Interesting though
Models were a thing even some 30 or 40 years ago. Processing power makes most of the difference today: it allows larger models and quicker results.
We didn’t call them AI because they weren’t (and aren’t) intelligent, but marketing companies eventually realized there were trillions of dollars to be made convincing people they were intelligent and created models explicitly designed to convince people of things like the idea that they are intelligent and can have genuine conversations like a real human and create real art like a real human and totally aren’t just empty-headedly mimicking thousands of years of human conversation and art, and immediately used them to convince people that the models themselves were intelligent (and many other things besides). Given that marketing and advertising literally exist to convince people of various things and have become exceedingly good at it, it’s really a brilliant business move and seems to be working great for them.
Oh and to answer this, specifically, Nvidia has been used in ML research forever. It goes back to 2008 and stuff like the desktop GTX 280/CUDA 1.0. Maybe earlier.
Most "AI accelerators" are basically the same thing these days: overgrown desktop GPUs. They have pixel shaders, ROPs, video encoders and everything, with the one partial exception being the AMD MI300X and beyond (which are missing ROPs).
CPUs were used, too. In fact, Intel made specific server SKUs for giant AI users like Facebook. See: https://www.servethehome.com/facebook-introduces-next-gen-cooper-lake-intel-xeon-platforms/
We didn't call them AI because they weren't (and aren't) intelligent, but marketing companies eventually realized there were trillions of dollars to be made convincing people they were intelligent and created models explicitly designed to convince people of things like the idea that they are intelligent and can have genuine conversations like a real human and create real art like a real human and totally aren't just empty-headedly mimicking thousands of years of human conversation and art, and immediately used them to convince people that the models themselves were intelligent (and many other things besides). Given that marketing and advertising literally exist to convince people of various things and have become exceedingly good at it, it's really a brilliant business move and seems to be working great for them.