I'm astonished that floating point ever gets mentioned in the context of AI - I went to static point (integer multiply and bit-shift) in the 1980s for neural ne

I'm astonished that floating point ever gets mentioned in the context of AI - I went to static point (integer multiply and bit-shift) in the 1980s for neural nets. I wasn't able to sell the idea to Hinton, way back then, but that was because he didn't give me time; he was busy tossing me out of his office for mentioning a new parallel-processing computer.