fromnighttilldawn t1_ir54qtq wrote on October 5, 2022 at 12:33 PM

Reply to comment by PeedLearning in [Discussion] Best performing PhD students you know by Light991

Yeah but those are also the most well connected people in the ML world. It is easy to be impactful when you are having tea with Hinton, LeCun and Bengio every afternoon.

PeedLearning t1_ir70vku wrote on October 5, 2022 at 8:11 PM

Hundreds of Phd students were in their positions. Few made such an impact.

It's not easy to be impactful, even with a good supervisor. In Krizhevsky's case, one could even argue he had a big impact, despite having Hinton as a supervisor. Alexnet was kind of built behind Hinton's back as he didn't approve of the research direction. Hinton did turn around later and recognize the importance though.